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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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A Chymical Dictionary

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Morus

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A swelling recognised through a mulberry comparison.

In the book. Ordoleum is compared to a barley grain, while Pandalitium identifies an aposteme through its position at the finger ends.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 33; facsimile PDF page 361.

Historical Definition

Morus is an aposteme like a mulberry.

Meaning

The comparison gives the reader a form by which to recognise the named swelling. It does not state that the mulberry is an ingredient or a remedy. The equivalent therefore needs to retain both the medical category aposteme and the likeness used to distinguish it.

Use in the Book

Ordoleum is compared to a barley grain, while Pandalitium identifies an aposteme through its position at the finger ends. These entries use different identifying marks within the vocabulary of swellings.

Places to Read

Ordoleum. A small swelling identified through a grain comparison.

Pandalitium. Three names for a swelling at the ends of the fingers.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 33; facsimile PDF page 361 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 361, Morus

See also. Ordoleum; Pandalitium

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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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