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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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Diatessadelton

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A name for Mercury in a precipitated condition.

In the book. Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus describes Mercury extracted from metals and precipitated.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 19; facsimile PDF page 347.

Historical Definition

Diatessadelton is precipitated Mercury.

Meaning

The qualifier identifies a prepared condition. The entry does not merely say Mercury, and the word precipitated should therefore remain visible. It gives no material used in the preparation or further account of the resulting substance.

Use in the Book

Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus describes Mercury extracted from metals and precipitated. Turbith minerale is Mercury precipitated into a sweetness without a corrosive. Those added conditions belong to their own entries. They help explain why the brief Diatessadelton gloss does not by itself identify every precipitated mercurial preparation.

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Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus. A preparation specified by metallic extraction followed by precipitation.

Turbith minerale. A mercury preparation described through precipitation and sweetness.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 19; facsimile PDF page 347 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Diatessadelton

See also. Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus; Turbith minerale

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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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