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Sophists and false physicians

Sophistas; Sophistis; sophista; pseudomedicorum; pseudomedicus; falsos Medicos; Sophista

Hostile labels for opponents who reject useful powers in dead materials or deny restoration.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Hostile labels for opponents who reject useful powers in dead materials or deny restoration. Book VI also fears misrepresentation by false physicians and criticizes practitioners who substitute metallic calx for potable preparations. These terms identify the author’s polemical adversaries, not an impartial professional classification. The attributed claims must remain distinguished from the position the author defends.

Places to read

  1. Book 6 · Resuscitation · Passage 1Latin“pseudomedicorum, meorum hostium”