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They sat on a lot actually “while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemist were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the “father of modern medicine,” burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he “had learned from the Sorceress al he knew.” p. 24. Skimmed the US section of this book
— Nov 07, 2024 03:58AM
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“The stakes of the struggle were high: Political and economic monopolisation of medicine meant control over its institutional organizations, its theory and practice, its profits and prestige. And the stakes are even higher today, when total control of medicine means potential power to determine who will live and (..) who is fertile or sterile, mad or sane” p. 5
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