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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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Ficus cutis

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Ficus cutis

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A bodily growth named with an additional historical medicinal use.

In the book. Formicæ describes small wart-like swellings, and Laudanum is another medicine whose ingredients are more fully named.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350.

Historical Definition

Ficus cutis is a wart growing on the skin of a horse’s legs, and a medicine to help diseases of the matrix.

Meaning

The entry first identifies a wart on a horse’s legs and then attributes a medicinal use concerning the matrix. Both clauses belong to the source. The second should not be allowed to obscure the bodily origin stated in the first.

Use in the Book

Formicæ describes small wart-like swellings, and Laudanum is another medicine whose ingredients are more fully named. These comparisons help distinguish a description of a bodily growth from a claim about its use as a remedy. This entry gives no preparation or conditions for that claimed application.

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Formicæ. Small bodily swellings described by comparison with warts.

Laudanum. A Paracelsian compound defined here through gold, coral and pearl.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Ficus cutis

See also. Formicæ; Laudanum

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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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