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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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Xenectum

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Xenectum

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A protective medicine worn externally about the body.

In the book. This article is useful for distinguishing a mode of wearing a remedy from the action classes named Sedativa or Repercussiva.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 48; facsimile PDF page 376.

Historical Definition

Xenectum is any external medicine hung about the body as a protection against plague.

Meaning

The description specifies placement and attributed purpose. The medicine is hung about the body, rather than explicitly swallowed or applied to a wound. Any makes the category broad; no ingredient is listed.

Use in the Book

This article is useful for distinguishing a mode of wearing a remedy from the action classes named Sedativa or Repercussiva. The source records protection against plague as its historical purpose, without supplying evidence of that protection.

Places to Read

Sedativa. Remedies classified by relief of pain.

Repercussiva. Medicines classified by their supposed action of driving a flow back.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 48; facsimile PDF page 376 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Xenectum; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 376; compare Sedativa, Repercussiva

See also. Sedativa; Repercussiva

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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.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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