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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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Congelativa

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Congelativa

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Medicines classified by stopping a bodily flow.

In the book. Constrictiva and Stiptica provide related categories of restraining or drying medicines.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.

Historical Definition

Congelativa are medicines that stop any flux.

Meaning

The defining property is the stopping of a flux, a flow or discharge. The entry gives no ingredients and makes no distinction among the different flows that another medical passage might discuss. Its broad wording should remain visible instead of being narrowed to one modern symptom.

Use in the Book

Constrictiva and Stiptica provide related categories of restraining or drying medicines. Repercussiva is also defined through driving back a flux. These are useful historical comparisons, but the dictionary does not say that every member of one class belongs to all the others.

Places to Read

Constrictiva. A surgical class defined through a styptic action.

Repercussiva. Medicines classified by their supposed action of driving a flow back.

Stiptica. A therapeutic class identified by drying.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile

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

See also. Constrictiva; Repercussiva; Stiptica

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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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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.