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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Brassadella

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Brassadella

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Two names identified with adder’s-tongue.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339.

Historical Definition

Brassadella, or Brassatella, is adder’s-tongue.

Meaning

The principal help is lexical: the two historical spellings lead to one identifying plant name. The entry does not specify a part, locality or preparation, so those details should remain open until supplied by the passage being read. Nor does the name alone authorize a medicinal or symbolic interpretation.

Keeping both forms in the index makes the short definition more usable without adding unsupported matter. Where a text describes an extraction, an application or a resemblance, its own evidence can then be discussed separately from this basic identification.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Brassadella

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About This Reading Edition

The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

About This Edition

Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.