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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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Viscus

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A pitch identified through its vegetable source and preparation.

In the book. Viscus secundæ generationis is separately defined through blood dropping from salts.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 46; facsimile PDF page 374.

Historical Definition

Viscus is properly pitch boiled from the tender tops of trees.

Meaning

Properly marks the sense the compiler regards as primary. The entry specifies tender tree tops and boiling as the relation between the starting material and the pitch.

Use in the Book

Viscus secundæ generationis is separately defined through blood dropping from salts. The shared name therefore does not make the two materials interchangeable. The qualifying expression changes the gloss.

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Viscus secundæ generationis. A salt-associated material described as blood.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 46; facsimile PDF page 374 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Viscus; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 374; compare Viscus secundæ generationis

See also. Viscus secundæ generationis

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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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