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iatrochemistry

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I`a`tro`chem´is`try
n.1.Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; - used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.
iatrochemistry
1. originally, alchemy devoted to medicinal purposes, especially the alchemy of the period 1525-1660, influenced by the theories of Paracelsus.
2. currently, chemistry for healing purposes. — iatrochemist, n.
See also: Alchemy


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Nonetheless, Lindemann does chart a kind of progress: by the end of the eighteenth century "physicians throughout most of Europe had shed the successive skins of Galenism, iatrochemistry, and iatromechanism.
Medicine and Society in Early Modem Europe by Lingo, Alison Klairmont / Journal of Social History
The first was the founder of iatrochemistry (the study of chemistry in relation to pathology, physiology, and medicine), the second an encyclopedic writer who made alchemy central to his thought.
Reverse transmutations: Beroalde de Verville's parody of Paracelsus ... by Giordano, Michael J. / Renaissance Quarterly
What also emerges as significant in the seventeenth century are the growing influence of Paracelsian medicine and iatrochemistry, and the central place of alchemy in spiritualistic cosmologies embodying ideas of human redemption and eschatology.
Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to ... by Clulee, Nicholas H. / Renaissance Quarterly
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