Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen Kurtze Unterrichtung

A prescription printed in 1608 shows that the controversies surrounding Paracelsism, which opposed classical humoral pathology, also attracted attention in Bamberg. The title already refers to the controversial doctor.

Influenced by Paracelsism, the court doctor Henning Scheunemann published a plague publication in 1608,
in which the disease was referred to as Morbus Mercurialis Contagiosus, based on the three-element teaching of Paracelsus.

The Bamberg doctor Sigismund Schnitzer and his colleague Andreas Libavius, who worked in Coburg, were critical of the teachings of Paracelsus, but like his followers were interested in empirical methods. Schnitzer's extensive correspondence on medical questions was published posthumously in 1626 by the physician Johannes Hornung under the title Cista medica.