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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 9: Effects of the Elixir

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Und so viel das Erste anbelangt / gleich wie ich biß dahero so viel erfahren / daß mit dieser Medicin, auch so gar / wann sie noch in infimo gradu, alle Kranckheiten / so durch die Pharmacopœam zu curiren seynd / curirt und geheilet werden können / massen ich in Haupt-Kranckheiten / und hitzigen vergifften auch andern Fiebern / in Ruhren / Item in gefährlichen Nasenbluten / und andern Blutflüssen / deßgleichen in beschwerlichen Mutterschmertzen / nicht weniger in schweren und gefährlichen Geburten / Item in Miltzschwachheiten / Melancholia, Hectica, Engbrüstigkeit / und andern Zuständen / mehrmahln durch Gottes Gnade einem und andern Patienten stattliche Hülff geleistet;

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 9: Effects of the Elixir

180–181

As to the first effect, I have so far experienced that this medicine, even while still at its lowest degree, can cure and heal every disease curable by the pharmacopoeia. Through God’s grace I have repeatedly given substantial help to various patients in disorders of the head; in hot, malignant and other fevers; in dysentery; in dangerous nosebleeds and other haemorrhages; in troublesome uterine pains; in difficult and dangerous childbirth; in weakness of the spleen, melancholy, hectic fever, shortness of breath and other conditions.

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About This Reading Edition

An anonymous Hermetic treatise of 1680, presented in its original German and Latin with a new English translation, 279 explanatory notes, the historical phoenix frontispiece, an introduction, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and original registers.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Candida Phoenix philosophica. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Hermsdorff, 1680. The chosen witness is the Wellcome Library copy digitized as b32993456; German and Latin, with French, Greek, and Hebrew passages retained.

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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The 1680 source is identified as public domain by the Wellcome/Internet Archive record. The supplied 2026 transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. The frontispiece is retained from the supplied edition and credited to its historical witness.