Crossword-Solution: ARCHAEUS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They were the basis of the three principles out of which the Archaeus, the spirit of nature, formed all bodies.

Now, this here elixir, sold for no more than sixpence a phial, contains the essence of the alkahest, the archaeus, the catholicon, the menstruum, the sun, the moon, and, to sum up all in one word, is the true, genuine, unadulterated, unchangeable, immaculate, and specific chruseon pepuromenon ek puros.” The audience were variously affected by this learned oration.

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.

While prating much about divine light as the source of all learning and culture, his boorish mien and rude manners afforded evidence that he did not profit much by its happy influence.[246:2] 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.

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