a contraction of aroma philosophorum; a name given to saffron.

AROPH PARACELSI; a name given to a kind of chemical flowers, probably of the same nature with the Ens Veneris, elegantly prepared by sublimation from equal quantities of lapis hematites and sal ammoniac.

AROPH is also a term used frequently by Paracelsus in a sense synonymous with lithontriptic.