Johannes Jacob Wecker from his Secrets of Art and Nature 1660

Johannes Jacob Wecker (1528–1586) was a Swiss physician and

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. He worked as a doctor from 1566 and wrote a number of works about medicine, some of which were in both French and Latin. Doubtless fleeing accusations of

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, Wecker moved to

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

after having published ''Les Secrets de Wecker.'' For a number of years, he worked as a professor of logic at the local university. He published ''Antidotarum generale'', a work about alchemy. His work is known for the elaborate bibliography on

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alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

. He also reported the first known case of

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.Concealed diphallus :a Case report and review of the literature.
Wecker married the poet and culinary writer

Anna Weckerin Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

. Two years after the death of her husband, she arranged for the publication in Basel of Wecker's ''Antidotarium Speciale, ex. opt. authorum … scriptis fideliter congestum et amplius triente actum''.

Works

* ''Medicae Syntaxes, medicinam universam ordine pulcherrimo complectentes'' . Basileae, 156
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* ''Antidotarium speciale . Cum duobus elenchis'' . Episcopius, .l.157
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* ''Medicinae utriusque syntaxes'' . Episcopius, .l. 158
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* ''Kunstbuch Des Wolerfarnen Herren Alexii Pedemontani/ von mancherleyen nutzlichen unnd bewerten Secreten oder Künsten / jetzt newlich auß Welscher und Lateinischer Sprach in Teutsch gebracht/ durch Doctor Hanß Jacob Wecker/ Stattartzet zu Colmar''. - Basel : König, 1616
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(in German) * ''Antidotarium generale et speciale''. - Basileae : König / Genath, (Nunc vero ... auctum ; adiectis ind. 161
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/ (Nunc vero supra priores editiones omnes multis novis et optimis formulis, maxima vero extractis auctum ; adiectis indicibus locupletissim 164
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wecker, Johannes Jacob 1528 births 1586 deaths 16th-century alchemists 16th-century Swiss physicians Swiss alchemists Swiss chemists Physicians from Basel-Stadt

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