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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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Demnächst darff ich wohl und für gewiß sagen / daß der Sulphur und das Sal Philosophorum treffliche remedia wider das Fraischlein der Kinder seynd: Und zwar noch vielmehr das Compositum auß denselben. Gestalten so wohl je- und das andere principium und particulare, als das compositum und universale (nemblich die Medicina secundi ordinis) beedes kräfftig stärcken / und / falls sie recht applicirt werden / die materiam peccantem (so nichts anders ist / weder ein schwartzer Schleim / wie es weyland Herr General Spar / durch erfahrne Medicos, und Eröffnung eines an dieser Kranckheit gestorbenen Kindes / weißlich erforschen lassen) ohne allen Schaden und Gefahr außführet; welches keine Medicin in der Apothecken zu thun vermag.

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

182–183

I may next say with certainty that the philosophers’ sulphur and salt are excellent remedies against children’s convulsive fits, and that the compound made from them is still more effective. Both the individual principle, which is particular, and the compound, which is universal—namely the medicine of the second order—strengthen powerfully. Properly applied, they expel the offending matter without any harm or danger. This matter is nothing other than a black slime, as the late General Spar wisely had investigated by experienced physicians through the opening of a child who had died of this disease. No medicine in the apothecaries’ shops can accomplish this.

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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.

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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.