 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1916 - 958 страници
...Paracelsus gave chemistry a practical object as it' emerged from the clouds of alchemy when he declared that " the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." In England, to-day, the drug store is the " Chemist's Shop," and those are not lacking in this country... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1916 - 950 страници
...Paracelsus gave chemistry a practical object as it emerged from the clouds of alchemy when he declared that " the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." In England, to-day, the drug store is the " Chemist's Shop," and those are not lacking in this country... | |
 | George Rantoul White - 1894 - 312 страници
...during the first half of the sixteenth century, united chemistry and medicine. He boldly maintained that the "object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." He considered the human body made up of chemical substances, and believed that changes in these substances... | |
 | Ernst von Meyer - 1898 - 664 страници
...their attention to technical chemistry. Paracelsus and his School.2 — Paracelsus was the man who, in the first half of the sixteenth century, opened out...prepare medicines." True, chemical remedies had been employed now and again before his time, Basil Valentine in particular having suggested their use ;... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - 1898 - 302 страници
...view of the science that Paracelsus, the father of iatro-chemistry, was led to declare that " the true object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." It would be impossible to measure the effect upon civilization of the comparatively recent discoveries... | |
 | 1912 - 866 страници
...recognise the desirability of investigating the physical universe with a motive other than alchemistry. He taught that "the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines," and founded the school of latro-chemistry or Medical Chemistry. This synthesis of chemistry with medicine... | |
 | Ellen Henrietta Richards, Alpheus Grant Woodman - 1900 - 248 страници
...CHAPTER VIII. FOOD IN RELATION TO HUMAN LIFE: COMPOSITION, SOURCES. DIETARIES. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) taught that "the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." Van Helmont (1577) recognized water as a chief constituent of all living matter. Sylvius (1614) taught... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1915 - 794 страници
...withdrew into Alsace, whither his fame in medicine followed him. 4 — Acad. Sci. — 2199 Paracelsus taught that "the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." He considered that the operations which occur in the human body are chemical ones and that the state... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1918 - 702 страници
...withdrew into Alsace, whither his fame in medicine followed him. 4 — Acad. Sci.— 2199 Paracelsus taught that "the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines." He considered that the operations which occur in the human body are chemical ones and that the state... | |
 | Ernst von Meyer - 1906 - 728 страници
...edition of the compendious work Paramirum I. ami II. (Diederich, Leipzig, 1903). of chemistry is iiot to make gold but to prepare medicines." True, chemical...matters ; when these underwent change in any way, illnesses resulted, and the latter could therefore only be cured by means of chemical medicines. The... | |
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the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines," and founded the school of latro-chemistry or Medical Chemistry. 
