The Devil's Doctor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Doctor write by Philip Ball. This book was released on 2006-04-18. The Devil's Doctor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon, and a radical theologian, he attracted myths even before he died. His fantastic journeys across Europe and beyond were said to be made on a magical white horse, and he was rumored to carry the elixir of life in the pommel of his great broadsword. His name was linked with Faust, who bargained with the devil. Who was the man behind these stories? Some have accused him of being a charlatan, a windbag who filled his books with wild speculations and invented words. Others claim him as the father of modern medicine. Philip Ball exposes a more complex truth in The Devil's Doctor—one that emerges only by entering into Paracelsus's time. He explores the intellectual, political, and religious undercurrents of the sixteenth century and looks at how doctors really practiced, at how people traveled, and at how wars were fought. For Paracelsus was a product of an age of change and strife, of renaissance and reformation. And yet by uniting the diverse disciplines of medicine, biology, and alchemy, he assisted, almost in spite of himself, in the birth of science and the emergence of the age of rationalism. "Ball produces a vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions:" - Publishers Weekly
Devil's Doctors
Devil's Doctors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil's Doctors write by Christian Bernadac. This book was released on 1978. Devil's Doctors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Devil's Doctors
The Devil's Doctors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Doctors write by Mark Felton. This book was released on 2012-07-19. The Devil's Doctors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of Guarding Hitler delivers “a study revealing the Japanese use of Allied POWs in medical experiments during WWII.”—The Guardian The brutal Japanese treatment of Allied POWs in WW2 has been well documented. The experiences of British, Australian and American POWs on the Burma Railway, in the mines of Formosa and in camps across the Far East, were bad enough. But the mistreatment of those used as guinea pigs in medical experiments was in a different league. The author reveals distressing evidence of Unit 731 experiments involving US prisoners and the use of British as control groups in Northern China, Hainau Island, New Guinea and in Japan. These resulted in loss of life and extreme suffering. Perhaps equally shocking is the documentary evidence of British Government use of the results of these experiments at Porton Down in the Cold War era in concert with the US who had captured Unit 731 scientists and protected them from war crime prosecution in return for their cooperation. The author’s in-depth research reveals that, not surprisingly, archives have been combed of much incriminating material but enough remains to paint a thoroughly disturbing story. “The narrative does not seek sensation or attempt to draw irrefutable conclusions where it is clearly impossible to do so, instead it simply provides a balanced assessment of what is known and what seems probable.”—Pegasus Archive
The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts
The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts write by Dylan Thomas. This book was released on 1966. The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For contents, see Author Catalog.
The Devil's Doctor
The Devil's Doctor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Doctor write by John H. Waller. This book was released on 2002-02-12. The Devil's Doctor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of Felix Kersten, a physical therapist who became Heinrich Himmler's personal physician, and his influence over Himmler to join a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler.
