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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 8 · Separation · Passage 39
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 p. 246
Latin
Tertia separatio est aqueae & phlegmaticae humiditatis una cum pinguedine extractae ex ossibus. Duo namque haec si arte Spagyrica per gradum Destillationis ab ossibus humanis separentur: porro vero ossa per gradum Calcinationis in candidissimum cinerem redigantur seu exurantur: Et denique tria haec iterum debita ratione uniantur, ita ut butyrum referant: Arcanum id ac specificum admirandum erit, quo quamlibet ossis fracturam citra dolorem tribus saltem deligationibus curare integre possis, modo fracturam ipsam ad praescriptum scientiae chirurgicae tractes componasque, & specificum tandem forma Emplastri imponas, &c. Idem etiam vulnera cranii, & quamcunque aliam ossium contusionem expeditissime persanat.
English
The third separation is of watery and phlegmatic moisture extracted together with fat from bones. If these two are separated from human bones by spagyric art through distillation, the bones then burnt or reduced by calcination to a very white ash, and finally the three properly united again until they resemble butter, this will be a wonderful arcanum and specific. With it you can completely cure any broken bone without pain in only three dressings, provided you treat and set the fracture itself according to surgical science and then apply the specific as a plaster. It also heals wounds of the skull and every other bruising of bones very readily.
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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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