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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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Cerviculæ

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At a Glance

The word. A spirit preparation identified through a particular animal material.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 15; facsimile PDF page 343.

Historical Definition

Cerviculæ is the spirit made from the bone in a hart’s heart.

Meaning

The definition gives an animal source, an anatomical location and a prepared form. It describes a bone said to be in a hart’s heart and a spirit made from it. The animal and the location should not be lost in a vague summary such as animal spirit, because they are the entry’s principal identifying details.

Scacurcula provides a closely matching account: the spirit of a bone in a hart’s heart. This direct parallel identifies the same anatomical source. Neither short entry supplies a complete preparation or establishes an attributed efficacy, so the shared wording should not be expanded into an unstated recipe.

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Scacurcula. A spirit associated with a bone in a deer’s heart.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 15; facsimile PDF page 343 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cerviculæ ; compare Scacurcula

See also. Scacurcula

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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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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.