The first way that Paracelsian medicine changed the selling of medicine was because it was an alternative to the longstanding theories of Galen, which caused tension to grow between followers of Paracelsus and those who followed the more traditional Galenic teachings. This animosity isn’t surprising because Galen had been used as the medical source for fifteen hundred years; suddenly having to deal with a competing theory would be a difficult adjustment for many to make. Yes, there had been issues with Galenic theory before this time but Paracelsus’ theories were the first to try and replace Galenic theories. Harkness, in her chapter “The Contest over Medical Authority”, describes how most university trained physicians disapproved of the very powerful chemical medicines that were considered Paracelsian, and were in favor of Galenic cures such as bloodletting and simple, herbal purgatives, which were thought to balance the body’s humors, clearly showing that the Galenic physicians were trying to improve the status of their own treatments. Paracelsian cures weren’t the only thing to be attacked; Nicholas Culpeper, a Paracelsian and the author of English Physician, accurately portrays the view of Galenists held by Paracelsians when he writes of how “He found the practice of phyfic directed more by terms of art than by principles of nature and governed more by avarice than by a genuine defire of reftoring health and ftrength to the defponding patient.” Of course more traditional physicians didn’t remain silent; according to Culpeper, they depicted him as “furly and vindictive” in an attempt to explain away his unique opinions. Their attacks only increased after it became known that Culpeper relied on astrology, a not uncommon occu...
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