[Paracelsus in St. Gallen].
Once, coming from Nürnberg, Paracelsus interrupted his journey and remained from 1531 to 1533 in the eastern part of Switzerland: First as personal physician of the severely ill mayor of St. Gall, Christian Studer, after the death of Studer (30. 12. 1531) he probably stayed in Roggenhalm near Bühler, a small village in the Canton of Appenzell. In most of the rare testimonies from citizens of St. Gall (Bartlome Schowinger, Johannes Rütiner, Vadian) about the man from Hohenheim he is described negatively as a rather unfavorable, unpleasant outsider. Vadian himself, to whom Paracelsus dedicated the third book of his "Opus Paramirum", obviously avoided him. In St. Gall Paracelsus wrote two prognostic scripts that were promptly printed in Zurich: The "Exposition of the Comet" and the "Exposition of the Arch of Peache". Rütiner tells in his diary about a (finally successful) surgical intervention on a hand operated by Paracelsus. Another successful treatment performed on a monk in December 1533, when he lived in Roggenheim, is registered in the expense-book of the abbot of St. Gall.
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Paracelsus in St. Gallen.