Phillipus von Hohenheim

Paracelsus is a stone bust in Hogwarts. Peeves dropped this in a hallway at one time.

The actual Paracelsus was a man born in 1493 in Austria. He was born Phillip Von Hohenheim, but changed his name to Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, then to Paracelsus.

He has made many contributions to medicine. He believed every human needed a balance of minerals and metals in their body and he was the first to used minerals and metals as madicine.

Paracelsus also studied pshyocotherapy, and was the first to understand the subconcious.