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AROPH

Volume 2 · 83 words · 1823 Edition

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

Arbor 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.

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

AROBAY, a town of the East Indies, on the coast of the island of Madura, near Java. E. Long. 14. 30. N. Lat. 9. 30.