Fernandez-Medina demonstrates that Cabriada contributes the most significant treatises of vital force of the late seventeenth century, one that moves away from Galenic humoralism and takes up new ideas from
iatrochemistry and mechanic-vitalist discoveries from abroad.
The sixty colloquies forming part of Orta's book present a medical view moving away from Galenism and Aristotelianism, and based upon modern botany and
iatrochemistry. Furthermore, the economical context in which he lived exerted a deep influence on his conception.
2) The iatrochemists, seeing life as chemical process, such as Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579-1644) of Brussels, Franciscus Sylvius (1614-1672) of Leiden (founder of
iatrochemistry), or Thomas Willis (1621-1675) of Oxford and London.
on the science of letters and talismans, on afflictions from the jinn, and on pharmacology and
iatrochemistry, the chapter charts in detail the Greek, prophetic, and non-Muslim theories and practices on which Sufi healers drew.
They generally agree that there was probably less discord in medical practice than in medical theory, and the new sciences of anatomy and physiology,
iatrochemistry and iatromechanial theory competed with medieval and early modern Galenism and the remnants of the Aristotelian intellectual edifice and its postulate of the organic integrity of body and soul.