Myths & mysteries
Paracelsus believed that human diseases could be cured by harnessing the magical magnetic energy of the stars
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Why take actual medicine when you can just violently strap a piece of iron to your forehead? Paracelsus was an arrogant Renaissance physician who threw ancient medical texts into a bonfire and decided illness was caused by celestial magnets being out of whack. He pioneered using minerals to treat patients, which occasionally worked, though entirely by scientific accident rather than magical space magnetism.
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