His mother died when he was very young, and shortly thereafter his father moved to Villach in southern Austria. Paracelsus, who was known as Theophrastus when he was a boy, was the only son of an impoverished German doctor and chemist. He published Der grossen Wundartzney ( Great Surgery Book) in 1536 and a clinical description of syphilis in 1530. Paracelsus, byname of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, (born November 11 or December 17, 1493, Einsiedeln, Switzerland-died September 24, 1541, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg ), German-Swiss physician and alchemist who established the role of chemistry in medicine. He disseminated his novel ideas through lectures and publications such as Der grossen Wundartzney (1536 Great Surgery Book). German-Swiss physician Paracelsus contributed substantially to the rise of modern medicine by pioneering treatments using new chemical remedies, including those containing mercury, sulfur, iron, and copper sulfate, thus uniting medicine with chemistry.
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