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Anatomia Essata
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A compressed expression naming a source or origin of disease.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332.
Historical Definition
Anatomia Essata is the mother of diseases.
Meaning
The explanation works through the metaphor of a mother: the term is associated with the generation or source of diseases. It gives no description of anatomy as dissection and no list of individual illnesses. A reader should therefore resist replacing the unfamiliar phrase with the familiar modern discipline merely because the words resemble one another. The entry is most useful as a signal to examine how the surrounding author explains the arising of disease. Its brevity leaves the exact technical mechanism unresolved.
Places to Read
Essatum essentiale. An essential power attributed to vegetable and mineral subjects.
Matrices rerum. The elements considered as matrices of things.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Anatomia Essata ; compare Essatum essentiale, Matrices rerum
See also. Essatum essentiale; Matrices rerum