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I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath,
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Why Hauck does not mention this authority escapes me, except for my suspicion that Burckhardt's "neglect" of salt leaves a hole in Hauck's "Paracelsan" theories and practices.
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I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
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