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Finally, the Paracelsian and iatro - chemical adoption of the primary goal of the medical alchemy of the Middle Ages resulted in the permanent acceptance of chemistry as a legitimate tool of the physician and the pharmacist.

ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968

[Greek: "Aekousa Tiberion pote Kaisara eipein, hos anaer huper hexaekonta [sic vulgò, sed bene corrigit Lipsius ad Tac.loc. cit. triakonta] gegonos etae, kai proteinon iatro cheira, katagelastos estin."]

Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

He accepted the main iatro-chemical doctrines, but gave most of his attention to applied Chemistry.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

The basis of the iatro-chemical doctrines, namely, that the healthy human body is a particular combination of chemical substances: illness the result of some change in this combination, and hence curable only by chemical medicines, expresses a certain truth, and is undoubtedly a great improvement upon the ideas of the ancients.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

He accepted the fundamental iatro-chemical doctrines, at the same time, however, criticising certain of the more extravagant views expressed by Paracelsus.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Boyle, however, was a man whose ideas were in advance of his times, and intervening between the iatro-chemical period and the Age of Modern Chemistry proper came the period of the Phlogistic Theory -- a theory which had a certain affinity with the ideas of the alchemists.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Between the pupils of Paracelsus and the older school of medicine, as might well be supposed, a battle royal was waged for a considerable time, which ultimately concluded, if not with a full vindication of Paracelsus's teaching, yet with the acceptance of the fundamental iatro-chemical doctrines.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

As we have already pointed out (§ 48), it was the iatro-chemists who first investigated chemical matters with an object other than alchemistic, their especial end in view being the preparation of useful medicines, though the medical-chemist and the alchemist were very often united in the one person, as in the case of Paracelsus himself and the not less famous van Helmont.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Through Paracelsus a great stimulus was given to the study of chemistry and pharmacy, and he is the first of the modern iatro-chemists.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

Thus he became the founder of the iatro-chemical school which, in opposition to the iatro-physical school of Borelli's followers attempted to explain all vital processes by mere chemistry.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913