Re: VMS -- Doctrine of Signatures

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:14 06/10/01 -0700, Dana F. Scott wrote:
> I don't know where Paracelsus learned the concept of the DoS, though it was
> apparently known to Hippocrates and practiced in China and India.

Thinking about it, Johannes Trithemius taught Paracelsus alchemy (IIRC): so 
there's a reasonable chance he may have learnt of the DoS through him.