ARCANUM

(Lat.), n. ’nu%m(nu‘m). Fr., arcane. Ger., Geheimmittel. Sp.,arcano. 1. oe preparation. 2. In alchemy, a thing secret, {ncorporeal, and immortal, which can only be known to man by experience; the virtue or e ence of anything, which is more Fees! than the thing itself. [Ruland (L, 120).J— A. album. See PuLvis viennensis virgineus.—A. Archedeti. See Lin i mentum CALCARIÆ sulphurate.—A. astrale. See under ‘A. spec if i cum.—A. bechicum, A. bechicum Will is i i. See Syrupus KALI suiphurati—A.’ coral linum, A.,coral linum Paracelsl. An alchemical name for the red oxide of mercury on which alcohol has been burned several times to render it milder. [B, 7,-86.]—A. cosmeticnm. Fr., arcane cosmétique. A mixture of 1 part of powdered talc and 2 parts of camphorated oil. [L, 85.] —A, duplex, A. duplicatum. Fr., arcane double. Sp., arcano duplicado. Normal pota ium sulphate; so called because it was regarded as being made up of the alkaline base existing in tartar (arcanum tartar i) combined with the acid principle of sulphuric acid. [B.J—A. duplicatum catholicum. An amulet composed of colchicum and plantain-roots. [L, 120.]—A. duplicatum depuratum. Pota ium sulphate. [B.J—A. duplicatum Mynsichti. See A.duplicatum.—A. epileptienm. A name given by Sti er to the ern on ed ppae of copper. [B.]—A. hols at i cum, A. holstein ensé “See A. duplicatum.—A. joviale, A. Jovis. A preparation made by digesting an amalgam of tin and mercury in spirit of nitre (nitric acid). [L, 104.]—A. Ludemanni. See Zinc oxide—A. materiale. A principle extracted from a substance and representing its e ential portion (‘‘extractum spec if i cum materia corp or is vicinius"’). When formed from a composite substance, i. e., one composed of a moist and a dry principle (such as air and fire), the a, m. likewise consisted of a moist and a dry component (“aqua still at it i a et coagulum specifieum "). [B, 50.]—A. spec if i cum. An extract representing the inner principle of a substance, especially a principle peculiay to that substance and unmixed with other substances. It was regarded as le ethereal than the quinte ence, and was said to have two components—one formative (* formal i us ”), called the a. astrale, and the other of a more material nature. [B, 50.]—A. tartar i, A. tartar i dulee. Old terms for normal tartrate of pota ium, [B, 2.|—A. Theophrastl. “The quinte ence of anythi ng most high or the virtue of anything refined by a you sand exaltations.” [L, 104.]—A. vitæ. See Evixir vite.