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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe contents of the body considered within the boundary of its skin.
- In the bookCorpus gives another general word for a bodily or material subject, while Excrementa identifies things expelled as superfluous.
- A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.
Historical definition
Cohos is everything contained by the skin throughout the whole body.
Meaning
The definition takes the skin as a boundary and gathers what it contains into a single term. It is broader than the name of one organ, fluid or tissue. “Everything” is important: replacing Cohos with a particular internal substance would narrow the definition beyond what the compiler says.
Use in the book
Corpus gives another general word for a bodily or material subject, while Excrementa identifies things expelled as superfluous. Cohos describes inclusion within a boundary; Excrementa describes the book’s account of removal. Their contrast can help a reader follow changes between the body as a whole and particular products of its activity.
Places to read
- CohosRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
- CorpusA body understood as the subject containing a thing’s hidden efficacy.
- ExcrementaSuperfluities described through expulsion by Nature.
Source note
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile