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218 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
20. Martine Noalhyt, “D’Une Homologie relative entre alchimie et
grande cuisine au XVII eme siècle en France,” Ph.D.dissertation
(Nouveau Doctoral), Université de Paris 5,1992, unpublished.
21. Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds (s.l.: L.C. Page & Company, 1932.), 130. The book originally
appeared as Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, 2 vols.
(London: Richard Bentley, 1841).
22. This recipe is attributed to Theophilus the Monk (12th c.). See John
Maxson Stillman, The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry (New
York: Dover, 1960), 229–29; and Michel Caron and Serge Hutin,
Les alchimistes (Paris: Seuil, 1959), in English as The Alchemists,
translated by Helen R.Lane (New York: Grove Press, 1961), 150–52.
The text here is from Truman Schwartz and G.Kauffman,
“Experiments in Alchemy,” journal of Chemical Education 53 (1976):
136–38, 235–39, especially 239.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 6
1. Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (New York: Signet, 1964),
194.
2. Johann Schröder, The Compleat Chymical Dispensatory, in Five Books,
translated by William Rowland (London: John Darby, 1669), 517–
22; the original edition, Schröder, Medico-Chymica. Sive Thesaurus
Phramecologicus (Ulmæ Suevorum: Johannis Görlini, 1662), 287–99,
has a list of symbols. Elk recipes are discussed in my Things and
their Places: The Concept of Installation from Prehistoric Tombs to
Contemporary Art, work in progress.
3. Cleidophorus Mystagogus, Trifertes Sagani, Or Immortal Dissolvent
(London: W. Pearson, 1705).
4. Allison Coudert, Alchemy: The Philosopher’s Stone (London:
Wildwood House, 1980), 131. She also mentions Pliny, Historia
naturalis, for prescriptions of boys’ urine.
5. Hans-Joachim Romswinkel, “‘De Sanguine Humane Destillato,’
Medizinischalchemistische Texte des 14. Jahrhunderts über
destilliertes Menschenblut,” Ph.D. dissertation, Rheinischen
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Bonn: Horst Wellm, 1974).
6. Paracelsus’s recipe is cited in Alessandro Olivieri, “L’homunculus di
Paracelso,” Atti della Reale Accademia di Archaeologia, Lettere e Belli
Arti, Naples n. s. 12 (1931–32): 375–97, especially 378; and see
Edmund Oskar von Lippmann, Der Stein der Weisen und
Homunculus, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und
der Technik (Berlin: J. Springer, 1923). Paracelsus describes several
species of homunculus. One is the product of sodomy; another is