Events Tagged: "physician"

St. Pantaleon martyred in Nicomedia - physician who treated poor for free, survived six execution attempts before beheading

St. Blaise martyred in Armenia - bishop and physician, lived as hermit, healed boy choking on fishbone, flesh torn with iron combs

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, son of physician Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim