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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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Necrolica

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Necrolica

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A medicinal class expressed through the strong claim of resisting death.

In the book. Preservativa concerns keeping bodies from corruption, while Periodus names the term of life.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 35; facsimile PDF page 363.

Historical Definition

Necrolica are medicines that repel death and preserve life.

Meaning

The compiler defines these medicines by the power claimed for them, not by composition. Expelling or repelling death intensifies the language of preservation; the entry provides no separate explanation of how that result is achieved.

Use in the Book

Preservativa concerns keeping bodies from corruption, while Periodus names the term of life. Reading those headings beside Necrolica helps distinguish a medicine’s claimed preserving action from a statement about the duration of life itself.

Places to Read

Preservativa. Remedies classified through preservation from corruption.

Periodus. The limit or duration of life.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 35; facsimile PDF page 363 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 363, Necrolica

See also. Preservativa; Periodus

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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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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.