Physician, natural scientist, and philosopher, 1493–1541; author of important medical, theological, and sociopolitical writings. From 1527–1528, city physician and professor in Basel.
Paracelsus introduced the treatment of diseases with chemical means during the Renaissance. The progress of practical medicine at the beginning of the 16th century is largely thanks to him. In 1510, Paracelsus earned a bachelor's degree in medicine in Vienna and in 1516, his doctorate in Ferrara. Around this time, he adopted the name Paracelsus, which meant "above Celsus," to express his contempt for the famous Roman physician. As a military physician, he participated in several local wars. His eloquence gave rise to the word "bombastic," derived from his surname Bombastus. In Basel, he angered those around him by opening his lectures to everyone and delivering them in German instead of Latin. Like Hippocrates, Paracelsus believed in treatment that starts with the body as a whole and in the healing power of the body itself.
Paracelsus was a brilliant diagnostician. He was the first to assume that lung diseases in miners were caused by inhaling metallic "vapors" and not by evil spirits. He found a connection between low mineral content in drinking water and the prevalence of goiters. His description of syphilis was a groundbreaking treatise, proposing a treatment with a mercury mixture for the first time.

(Source: http://home.datacomm.ch/biografien/biografien/paracelsus.htm)

Starting point:
Directly on the Way of St. James from Rapperswil to Einsiedeln, just before the Devil's Bridge. Today the Krone Restaurant.

Time required:
No additional time required. Opportunity for a rest. At the Restaurant Krone

Information: (see also the website cited as source): http://www.paracelsus-center.ch
Restaurant Krone, Etzel 3, 8847 Egg SZ, Tel. +41 (0)55 412 46 60
Monument at Paracelsus Park in Einsiedeln

Public transport:
Postbus Egg SZ