Théodore de Mayerne
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Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne was a Genevan-born physician who treated kings of France and England and advanced the theories of Paracelsus.
Sir Théodore de Mayerne by Paul van Somer I
Paracelsus
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Paracelsus, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
1538 portrait by Augustin Hirschvogel
The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of "fat" Paracelsus
The University of Basel, where Paracelsus started working as a professor in 1527
Monument to Paracelsus in Beratzhausen, Bavaria