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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Urine and pigeon dung occur in the alleged fertilization of Gold, carrying cultivation language into a metallic setting. Boys’ urine receives a distinct role in Book 3’s claim to preserve and enhance Gold’s colour. The bodily-material names are concrete parts of those historical assertions, not generic synonyms for alchemical reagents. The two passages attribute cultivation-like and colour-preserving effects to these materials without establishing their metallurgical validity.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Original marginal note 14Latin“urina puerorum”