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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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Cambuca

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A localized condition described through an abscess or ulcer.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342.

Historical Definition

Cambuca is an abscess or ulcer in the groin.

Meaning

The location is part of the identification, not an optional detail. The entry gives alternative lesion descriptions but does not state their cause, course or remedy. A modernisation should therefore preserve the groin reference and the alternatives without assigning a specific modern infection or diagnosis.

Compare Carbunculus, where the dictionary again gives an abscess or ulcer description with a different qualification. Similar lesion vocabulary can recur in distinct entries; the additional words help the reader avoid merging them.

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Carbunculus. A historical lesion term with a pestilential qualification.

Exitura. An abscess characterised by discharging matter.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cambuca ; compare Carbunculus, Exitura

See also. Carbunculus; Exitura

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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.