BLAS
\blˈɑːz], \blˈɑːz], \b_l_ˈɑː_z]\
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An unmeaning term invented by Van Helmont to designate a kind of movement in the body; at times, local,-at others, under extraneous influence. Thus, he speaks of the Bias meteoros of the heavenly bodies, and the Blas huma'num, that which operates in man.
By Robley Dunglison
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