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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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Emunctorium

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Emunctorium

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At a Glance

The word. A bodily place identified through expulsion.

In the book. Excrementa supplies that general account of ejected superfluities.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 20; facsimile PDF page 348.

Historical Definition

Emunctorium is the place from which an excrement is expelled.

Meaning

The definition names a place through its function. Excrement is used in the dictionary’s broader sense of superfluous matter ejected by Nature, rather than being confined here to one familiar bodily product. The entry does not identify a particular organ or outlet.

Use in the Book

Excrementa supplies that general account of ejected superfluities. Anodus instead names what is separated from nutriment by the kidneys. The distinction helps separate a place of expulsion from a particular separated material. Emunctorium itself should remain a locational term.

Places to Read

Anodus. A bodily product defined through renal separation.

Excrementa. Superfluities described through expulsion by Nature.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 20; facsimile PDF page 348 — Facsimile

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

See also. Anodus; Excrementa

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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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