Definition of iatrochemistry in English:
iatrochemistry
noun ʌɪatrəʊˈkɛmɪstriīˌatrəˈkemistrē
mass nounhistorical A school of thought of the 16th and 17th centuries which sought to understand medicine and physiology in terms of chemistry.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1608, Oswald Croll published his Basilica chymica, a treatise devoted to a predominantly Paracelsian iatrochemistry.
- Thoren talks a great deal about alchemy, but it always sounds like Paracelsian iatrochemistry to me.
- But like its Galenic enemy, Paracelsan iatrochemistry declined in the second half of the seventeenth century.
- The term iatrochemistry means the use of chemistry in medicine which was unheard of before Paracelsus.
Derivatives
adjective
historical He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts and clearly a practising alchemist.
Example sentencesExamples
- Out of the iatrochemical theory or alongside it, there arose iatromechanics and even iatromathematics.
- However, his Traité was extremely popular in iatrochemical circles.
- This union of chemistry with medicine was one characteristic of the iatrochemical school of which he was the precursor.
noun
historical Some of these lives overlapped, especially in his role as an iatrochemist or medicinal chemist.
Example sentencesExamples
- Significantly, Hippocrates was the only author in the medical canon to be appreciated even by the iconoclastic iatrochemists.
- He may be considered a distant ancestor of the iatrochemists of the Sixteenth Century.
- A little later, the Arab iatrochemist Avicenna recognized the toxic properties of white arsenic.
- The iatrochemists had a shadowy consciousness of the etheric body, the iatromechanists had none.