Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance

`… A work in the best tradition of bibliographical research… even the casual reader will be impressed to learn that, four centuries ago, the man who had the courage to burn in public the writings of Avicenna, recognised pulmonary disease in miners as an occupational hazard, cretinism and goitre as endemic in certain areas, and chorea and hysteria as manifestations of disease, not demonic possession.'