Renaissance Medicine

  • Yuriy Drohobych (Kotermak)

    ByОлена Коновалова

    Yuriy Mykhailovych Kotermak (Yuriy Drohobych, Georgiy Drohobych) (ca 1450 – February 4, 1494). 44 years The Late Renaissance period, a predecessor of Paracelsus. Galicia / Bologna Achievements: The first Ukrainian doctor of medicine, who was ahead of his time and revealed to Europe the intellectual power of Rus-Ukraine. Professor (and later rector) of the University…

  • Paracelsus

    ByОлена Коновалова

    Theophrastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus (November 10, 1493 – September 28, 1541). 48 years      His full name was Philipp Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus. The nickname Aureolus, meaning “golden,” and the name that entered history – Paracelsus, meaning equal to Celsus, he invented himself.     He was born in the Swiss town of…