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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The salts paragraph specifies wooden containers and protection from air, contrasting them with glass, stone and metal storage. Theca is an enclosure or case, not necessarily a precisely reconstructed piece of laboratory equipment. The combination of material, warmth and dryness forms the historical storage rule. It illustrates how preservation depends on an environment in the text, rather than always requiring an active medicinal or alchemical additive.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 10Latin“in ligneis thecis, & bene ab aere custodiri”