archaeus

Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall

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As life and all vital action depended upon _archaeus_, any disturbance of this spirit was regarded as the probable cause of fevers and other morbid conditions.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

The Paracelsians maintained that life is a perpetual germinative process, controlled by the _archaeus_ or vital force, which was supposed to preside over all organic phenomena.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

The principal _archaeus_ was believed to have its residence in the stomach, but subordinates guarded the interests of the other important bodily organs.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Nevertheless, Bichat rendered a solid service to physiological progress by insisting upon the fact that what we call life, in one of the higher animals, is not an indivisible unitary archaeus dominating, from its central seat, the parts of the organism, but a compound result of the synthesis of the separate lives of those parts.

Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

But I had expected, in simple ignorant faith, that the sacred mysteries of some marvellous cabala would be revealed, and not finding what I wanted (though indeed I discovered much that was worldly new to me), I returned to the good old ghost-haunted paths trodden by my ancestors, to dryads and elves and voices from the stars, and the _archaeus_ formed by the astral spirit (not the modern

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863