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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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Cohos

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At a Glance

The word. The contents of the body considered within the boundary of its skin.

In the book. Corpus gives another general word for a bodily or material subject, while Excrementa identifies things expelled as superfluous.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.

Historical Definition

Cohos is everything contained by the skin throughout the whole body.

Meaning

The definition takes the skin as a boundary and gathers what it contains into a single term. It is broader than the name of one organ, fluid or tissue. “Everything” is important: replacing Cohos with a particular internal substance would narrow the definition beyond what the compiler says.

Use in the Book

Corpus gives another general word for a bodily or material subject, while Excrementa identifies things expelled as superfluous. Cohos describes inclusion within a boundary; Excrementa describes the book’s account of removal. Their contrast can help a reader follow changes between the body as a whole and particular products of its activity.

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Corpus. A body understood as the subject containing a thing’s hidden efficacy.

Excrementa. Superfluities described through expulsion by Nature.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Cohos

See also. Corpus; Excrementa

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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.

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

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