Toxicology
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Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and th
A toxicologist working in a lab (United States, 2008)
Lithograph of Mathieu Orfila
Brochure illustrating the work of the CDC Division of Laboratory Sciences
Paracelsus
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Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Toxicology
…traditions and has been viewed as a precursor to the later revival of Greek science associated with the Renaissance. The 16th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus is considered "the father" of modern toxicology, based on his rigorous approach to understanding the effects of substances on the body. He is credited…
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