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iatrochemistry /ʌɪatrəʊˈkɛmɪstri /noun [mass noun] historicalA school of thought of the 16th and 17th centuries which sought to understand medicine and physiology in terms of chemistry.In 1608, Oswald Croll published his Basilica chymica, a treatise devoted to a predominantly Paracelsian iatrochemistry....- The term iatrochemistry means the use of chemistry in medicine which was unheard of before Paracelsus.
- Thoren talks a great deal about alchemy, but it always sounds like Paracelsian iatrochemistry to me.
Derivativesiatrochemical adjective ...- Out of the iatrochemical theory or alongside it, there arose iatromechanics and even iatromathematics.
- However, his Traité was extremely popular in iatrochemical circles.
- He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts and clearly a practising alchemist.
iatrochemist noun ...- Some of these lives overlapped, especially in his role as an iatrochemist or medicinal chemist.
- The iatrochemists had a shadowy consciousness of the etheric body, the iatromechanists had none.
- He may be considered a distant ancestor of the iatrochemists of the Sixteenth Century.
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