Basil Valentine

A man whom he greatly influenced, Paracelsus, took up the tradition of scientific investigation where Basil Valentine had left it.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

When one knows what European, and especially German scholars, were accomplishing at this time, no room is left for surprise that Basil Valentine should have lived and done work in medicine at this period that was to influence deeply the after history of medicine.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

For instance, Basil Valentine explains in this work how what he calls the spirit of salt might be obtained.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

There are definite historical grounds for placing Basil Valentine as the first of the series of careful observers who differentiated chemistry from the old alchemy and applied its precious treasures of information to the uses of medicine.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

Germany also produced many famous alchymists in the fifteenth century, the chief of whom are Basil Valentine, Bernard of Trèves, and the Abbot

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

Yet we must remember that the name of Basil Valentine, the monk, is associated with whatever good and harm we can ascribe to antimony; and that the most remarkable of our specifics long bore the name of

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Alchemist, Basil Valentine, who said in his Currus Triumphalis

Spectator, June 18, 1711 1711

Keeping her eyes and hands steady, Griffin continued to take notes about the alchemist Basil Valentine and his laboratory equipment: silver eggs, ancient shells, peacocks’ tails, chunks of gold, and dragons’ scales.

The Wish Stealers Tracy Trivas 2010

Keeping her eyes and hands steady, Griffin continued to take notes about the alchemist Basil Valentine and his laboratory equipment: silver eggs, ancient shells, peacocks’ tails, chunks of gold, and dragons’ scales.

The Wish Stealers Tracy Trivas 2010

Hohenheim), and through him by the Benedictine monk Basil Valentine.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913