St. Gallen, Switzerland/st gallen040

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The house appears much as it did then, on a cobble-stone street. While in St. Gallen, Paracelsus wrote Opus Paramirum (Work Beyond Wonder). Here he expounded his mature medical theories, where his theory of the three substances (sulphur, salt, and mercury) was presented. He also discussed diseases due to stone (tartar) and psychic phenomena and diseases arising from the imagination.