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Definition of Archeus
1. n. The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Definition of Archeus
1. Noun. (historical) The vital principle or force believed by the Paracelsians to be responsible for the growth and continuation of all living beings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archeus
1. an inner controlling spirit [n ARCHEI]
Medical Definition of Archeus
1. Term first used by Valentine and later by Paracelsus and van Helmont to denote a spirit that presided over and governed bodily processes. Synonym: archeus. Origin: L. Fr. G. Archaios, chief, leader (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archeus
Literary usage of Archeus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"Beneath the latter in rank stands the perceptive and concupiscent " under which
again is the archeus. The former belongs to man and animals <-r ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Many of the symptoms oí diseases were caused by the passions and perturbations
oí the archeus, and medicines acted by modifying the ideas oí the same ..."
3. Isis Revelata: An Inquiry Into the Origin, Progress, and Present State of by John Campbell Colquhoun (1836)
"Van Helmont even held, that, by virtue of the archeus, man was approximated to
the realm of spirits; meaning, I presume, that, in cases of ecstasy, ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and by John Barclay (1822)
"dained an archeus for her assistant, and supplied it with three subordinate agents
to officiate as labourers ; namely, salt, sulphur, and mercury. ..."
5. Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen (1839)
"THE archeus OF VAN HELMONT. of amalgamating and identifying itself with matter;
penetrating its inmost recesses, it modifies and changes each particle of ..."
6. Health and how to promote it by Richard McSherry (1879)
"... Van Helmont there placed his archeus, or principal ruling power ; Wrisberg
and Lobstein treated it as the cerebrum abdominale ; Hunter called it the ..."
7. The Natural history of digestion by Alexander Lockhart Gillespie (1904)
"If the " archeus " failed in his duty, or if the excretory organs were unhealthy,
... The archeus of Paracelsus seems to have been a reminiscence of the ..."
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