Finally, in about the sixteenth century, a physician whose name was Theophrastus Bombastus Aureolus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, a name probably familiar to some people here good, old Paracelsus found that he could predict the degree of convulsion by using a measured amount of camphor to produce the convulsion.

MELBOURNE In the sixteenth century, the alchemist Paracelsus offered a recipe for creating a living being that began with putting sperm into putrefying venter equinus. This is usually translated as horse manure, but the Latin venter means abdomen or uterus.