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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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Pulpezia

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A sudden bodily change attributed to stellar agency.

In the book. Somnia similarly attributes operations in a sleeper to the stars, while Primales concerns deceptive bodies put before the eyes.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366.

Historical Definition

Pulpezia is a sudden astonishment or change in a person’s body caused by the stars.

Meaning

The sentence offers two descriptions, astonishment or change, and supplies the stars as their cause. Astonishment is retained as part of the older bodily vocabulary rather than automatically reduced to an ordinary feeling of surprise.

Use in the Book

Somnia similarly attributes operations in a sleeper to the stars, while Primales concerns deceptive bodies put before the eyes. The comparisons locate several kinds of stellar action without making them one condition.

Places to Read

Somnia. Dreams explained through stellar operations in the sleeper.

Primales. Bodies described as deceptive appearances caused by stars.

In This Edition

The historical cause remains an attributed explanation. The source does not give enough clinical detail for a secure modern diagnosis.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Pulpezia; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 366; compare Somnia, Primales

See also. Somnia; Primales

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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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