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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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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.

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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

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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.