Johannes Jacob Wecker from his Secrets of Art and Nature 1660

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

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. 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

sorcery Sorcery commonly refers to: * Magic (supernatural), the application of beliefs, rituals or actions employed to manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces ** Goetia, ''Goetia'', magic involving the evocation of spirits ** Witchcraft, the ...

, Wecker moved to

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

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

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

alchemy Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...

. He also reported the first known case of

diphallia Diphallia, penile duplication (PD), diphallic terata, or diphallasparatus is an extremely rare developmental abnormality in which a male is born with two Human penis, penises. The first reported case was by Johannes Jacob Wecker in 1609. Its occu ...

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

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* ''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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