Bodily liquids and juices

Meaning

The Latin inflected form is immediately glossed by German Safften: liquids or juices. Here these are bodily products within the extended account of nourishment, alongside named tissues, wastes and mineral-like deposits. The word is not restricted to distilled laboratory liquids. The mixed-language pairing allows the narrator to widen the example beyond the named list and supports the contrast between familiar bodily variety and the narrower change of one metal into another.