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invented a great many words of his own to express his 

 meaning, and only few of his words have obtained the 

 right of citizenship in our language. To facilitate the 

 study of the works of Paracelsus, his disciples, Gerhard 

 Dorn, Bernhard Thurneyssen, and Martin Ruland, com- 

 posed dictionaries to explain the meaning of such curious 

 terms. The one compiled by Ruland, entitled " Lexicon 

 Alchemicum" (Prague, 1 6 1 2), is the most complete. Guil- 

 helmus Johnson published the same under his own name 

 at London in 1 660, and it has been incorporated into the 

 greatest collection of alchemical writings, the "Bibliotheca 

 Chymica Curiosa," by J. T. Mangets (Geneva, 1702). 

 Another " Dictionarium Paracelsicum " was written by 

 a certain Bailiff, and added to the Geneva publication. 

 But as all these books have become very rare, and can 

 only be obtained with difficulty and at a great expense, 

 we therefore add below a complete list of his favourite 

 terms, for the benefit of those who may wish to read his 

 complete works. 



THE WRITINGS OF PARACELSUS. 



Paracelsus wrote personally not a great deal. He 

 usually dictated that which he desired to be put into 

 writing to his disciples. The greatest part of his works 

 is therefore in the handwriting of his disciples. Few of 

 the works of Paracelsus were printed during his lifetime. 

 Those that were printed consist of his seven books, " De 

 Gradibus et Compositionibus Receptorum et Naturalium," 

 Basel, 1526; and of his " Chirurgia Magna," printed at 

 Ulm, 1536. The rest of his writings did not become 

 known publicly until after his death, and it is to be 

 regretted that his disciples and followers — such as Adam 

 von Bodenstein, Alexander von Suchten, Gerhard Dorn, 

 Leonhard Thurneyssen, Peter Severinus, Oswald Crall, 

 Melchior Schennemanu, and others — delivered them in 

 such a state of confusion to the printer, that frequently 



