Weapon-salve

One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.

The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.

A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.