08-04-2026, 01:17 PM
(07-04-2026, 09:46 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a very thin line between a legitimate medieval doctor and a charlatan. Were people like Paracelsus doctors or charlatans?
The books by the Paracelsian Bartholomäus Carrichter (1510–1574), the Practica (which was published posthumously in 1575) and two books combining astrology and medicine, were frequently reprinted: Kräuterbuch (1575) and Von der Heilung zauberischer Schäden (1608).
According to a contemporary named Jean Crato, he was nothing more than an "uneducated charlatan" whose ignorance caused the death of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I.
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