Internal and external medicinal use

intro; extra; adhibenda

Intro and extra qualify the medicinal uses claimed for the products of plant separation: internally and externally.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Intro and extra qualify the medicinal uses claimed for the products of plant separation: internally and externally. The paragraph has traced a succession of phlegm, Mercury, oil, resin, Sulphur, and Salt before praising the resulting medicines. The adverbs therefore concern their proposed application, not the earlier direction in which constituents were separated. The therapeutic praise remains the text’s claim.

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  1. Book 8 · Separation · Passage 31Latin“cum intro tum extra corpori adhibenda”