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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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Saxifraga

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A therapeutic class defined by the breaking of stone or gravel.

In the book. Saxifragus, the neighboring headword, receives a different gloss: pale crystal.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370.

Historical Definition

Saxifraga are all things that break the stone or gravel.

Meaning

All such things makes this a class of agents defined by an attributed effect. It is not, in this entry, the identification of one particular plant. Stone and gravel belong to the historical medical vocabulary also used under Tartarum.

Use in the Book

Saxifragus, the neighboring headword, receives a different gloss: pale crystal. The slight difference in ending should not be ignored when consulting the dictionary.

Places to Read

Saxifragus. A mineral identification distinct from Saxifraga.

Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Saxifraga; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 370; compare Saxifragus, Tartarum

See also. Saxifragus; Tartarum

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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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