From the book
Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Meaning
Varnish and gum are among the products used to illustrate coagulation and material transformation. Egg white, oils, or spermatic mucilage can be assigned varnish-like results, while liquors can become gum. The names describe valued product conditions in these passages, not necessarily one chemically uniform substance wherever they recur in the work’s accounts of plants and manufacture.
Places to read
- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 28Latin“coagulari in vernicem”