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Paracelsus thought diseases were caused by internal weather

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Blaming your fever on a microscopic internal thunderstorm. Completely rejecting the standard medical theories of his time, Paracelsus decided that the human body had its own localized atmosphere, and getting sick meant you were experiencing bad cellular climate.

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