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AROPH PARACELSI

Volume 2 · 46 words · 1815 Edition

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 haematites and sal ammoniac.

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