Salzburg, Austria/salzburg250
Previous | Home | NextThe plaque at the base of the memorial: [In Latin] "Here lies Philipus Theophrastus, Doctor of Medicine of great renown, whose art most wonderfully healed even the most terrible wounds, leprosy, podagra [gout], dropsy [edema], and other seemingly incurable diseases; and who honored himself by having all his possessions distributed among the poor. He passed from life to death on September 24 in the year 1541." At the bottom of the plaque is Paracelsus' coat-of-arms: "An escutcheon between eight crosses, a bend charged with three plates." Below the coat-of-arms: [in Latin] "Pax vivis requies aeterna sepultis": "Peace to the living, eternal rest to the buried."
