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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 8 · Separation · Passage 37
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 pp. 245–246
Latin
Separationem animalium, Anatomiam praecurrere necesse est, ut seorsim sit sanguis, seorsim caro, seorsim ossa, seorsim cutis, seorsim intestina, seorsim tendines, etc. post, quodlibet horum per se spagyrica arte separandum est. Itaque hoc loco Separationes praecipue quatuor sunt. Prima aquosam et phlegmaticam humiditatem a sanguine elicit. Sanguine namque hoc modo, secundum processum in libro de conservationibus traditum, separato, Mumia nobilissima prodit, et specificum tam praestans, ut quodlibet recens vulnus, viginti quatuor horarum spatio, per unicam ligaturam sanari & consolidari possit, &c.
English
Anatomy must precede the separation of animals, so that blood, flesh, bones, skin, intestines and tendons are each apart. Afterwards each must itself be separated by the spagyric art. There are chiefly four separations here. The first draws watery and phlegmatic moisture from blood. When blood is separated in this way, according to the process given in the book on preservation, a most noble mumia emerges, a specific remedy so excellent that any fresh wound can be healed and closed within twenty-four hours with a single dressing.
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the historical title, dedication and all nine books, with 363 separately labelled historical marginal notes, 117 modern annotations and the complete Diotimos study apparatus. The transmitted composite work is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus; individual authorship remains qualified.
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The normalized Latin follows the complete 1605 Frankfurt Palthenian witness, volume six, printed pages 198–271, in SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, historical scans 182–255. Earlier textual tradition is German; the individual translator of the 1605 Latin text is not identified. The dedication’s 1537 date is transmitted text, not an established date for the composite work.
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