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Anodus
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A bodily product defined through renal separation.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332.
Historical Definition
Anodus is what the kidneys separate from nourishment.
Meaning
The definition organizes the body through an act of separation: nourishment enters the account, the kidneys act, and something is removed from it. It identifies Anodus by origin and agency rather than by colour or composition. The short sentence gives no warrant for expanding it into a particular modern biochemical substance. In historical medical prose, attend to whether the writer is describing the separated material, the organ’s action or a failure of that action. Those are related but distinct subjects.
Places to Read
Baul. A historical name identifying urine.
Excrementa. Superfluities described through expulsion by Nature.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Anodus ; compare Baul, Excrementa
See also. Baul; Excrementa