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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Waters and liquors pressed from plants are said to acquire mould and mildew as though a skin formed over them. Pellis is a comparison for the surface layer, not a claim that the liquid grows literal animal skin. The oil-covering argument then claims protection against this visible corruption. The image explains the problem the text aims to solve without making absence of a skinlike layer a reliable guarantee of safety.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 11Latin“quasi pellis ipsis inducantur”