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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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Bothor

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A skin-condition term with two stated descriptive equivalents.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339.

Historical Definition

Bothor are wheals or pustules.

Meaning

The dictionary gives a pair of visible skin descriptions rather than a cause or a named systemic illness. Both alternatives should remain in the modernised definition. A historical author may use the word broadly or qualify the lesions more closely; this entry alone does not supply that distinction.

The form is plural, which may help a reader recognize the word’s role in a list of signs. Its function is descriptive. A modern diagnosis, organism or treatment should not be inferred simply because one present-day skin condition can also involve pustules.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Bothor

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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.

About This Edition

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.