Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn,

(born in Basel 1530, died in Cologne 1596)
was the most famous of all the admirers
of Paracelsus; but a failed
copy of the original, even though he resided
where the latter had once lived.) He
was more of an astrological swindler and
empiric (without true scholarship) than
a righteous physician.) One must
be very surprised at how Reinesius) could
hold this fraudulent charlatan in such high esteem. At most, one can grant him some
merits regarding botany, the knowledge of which,
just like almost all his medical
science, he had to thank primarily the Basel
physician, Dr. Johann Huber—

*) It is now the famous Wilhelm Haas type foundry.
**) Acta med. Berolinens. Berlin Medical Records Dec. II, Vol. I. and Dr. J. C. W. Möhsen's contributions to the history of the sciences in the March of Brandenburg etc., Berlin 1783, large 4to, where on pp. 55—198 Thurneisser's life is told in detail.
***) Variar. Lect. Various Readings p. 664.