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7 the Anatomy of Animals
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1723 pp 325–326Jetzo wollen wir siccas & sicciores partes nehmen. Derowegen Rec. Fleisch, Bein, Horn, Haar, Klauen, Haut und was da härter am Thier ist, zerstosse, zerschneide, zerquetsche, raspele, feile und mache deren eins klein, welches du wilt, und so gut als du kanst, denn so thue es in einen Kolben, und giesse entweder dessen Thiers, davon das Subject genommen ist, Blut oder verfaulten Urin oder Safft, oder im Mangel aller derer ein faules Regen-Wasser, doch aber microcosmi, das ist, vom Menschen, weil er ist das centrum concentratum des gantzen animalischen Reichs, als in welchem alle virtutes caeterorum animalium zusammen geflossen, gleichwie im Wein alle virtutes caeterorum vegetabilium, im [Nitrum] und dessen vitriolinischen Gur alle virtutes mineralium. Giesse, sage ich, eines dergleichen auf dein kleingemachtes subject, setze ins B. M. oder vaporis, Roß-Mist, laß putrificiren, denn so separire per B. M. und Aschen durch den Kolben, und distillire alle partes davon, wie vor gesagt worden. Denn, so du wilt, rectificire jeden part nach gesagter Lehre, und conjungire es, wie die vorgesagten in allen. Weil aber zuförderst die Haare an einem Thier eine fast lautere fette coagulirte substantz ist, oleosum pingue, und die oleosa mehrentheils balsamica sind, und schwer in die putrefaction gehen, und sehr langsam, gleich also auch die Beine, Hörner, daß einen Liebhaber schrecken möchte, solche verdrießliche operationes vorzunehmen: also muß ich ihm auch zwey kürtzere Handgriffe zeigen, mit welchen er geschwinde zu rechte kommen kan.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 7 the Anatomy of Animals
1723 pp 325–326Now let us take the dry and drier parts. Take flesh, bones, horn, hair, hooves, skin, and whatever is harder in an animal. Pound, cut, crush, rasp, file, and reduce whichever of these you wish as finely as you can. Put it in a flask and pour upon it blood, putrefied urine, or juice from the animal from which the subject was taken; if all these are lacking, use putrid rainwater. Prefer the microcosm, however—that is, human material—because the human being is the concentrated centre of the entire animal kingdom, into which all the powers of the other animals have flowed, just as all the powers of other plants flow into wine, and all mineral powers into nitre and its vitriolic gur. Pour, I say, one of these over your finely divided subject, set it in a water bath, vapour bath, or horse dung, and let it putrefy. Then separate it through the flask in the water bath and in ashes, distilling off all its parts as already stated. If desired, rectify each part according to the teaching given and reunite it in every respect like the preceding subjects. But animal hair in particular is almost wholly a fatty coagulated substance, a rich oily matter; oily substances are mostly balsamic and enter putrefaction with difficulty and very slowly. The same holds for bones and horns, which might discourage a lover of the art from undertaking such wearisome operations. I must therefore show two shorter manual procedures by which he can succeed quickly.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 7 the Anatomy of Animals · B2C07S005 · 1723 pp 325–326
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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