Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the chemical theory of medicine: applied to a school of medicine of the seventeenth century which, progressive in its tendencies, applied with a certain exclusiveness and extravagance chemical doctrines to the explanation of physiological and pathological phenomena: opposed to iatrophysical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
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- adjective of, or relating to
iatrochemistry or aniatrochemist
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Examples
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Finally, the Paracelsian and iatrochemical 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 1968
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Another leading figure in the iatrochemical school, Thomas Willis (1621-75), was an Englishman.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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The iatrochemical school existed alongside the iatrophysical.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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Whereas the iatrophysical thought primarily in terms of matter, forces, and motions, the iatrochemical thought chemical relationships were fundamental.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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154 His "Anatomic Générale," published in 1802, gave an extraordinary stimulus to the study of the finer processes of disease, and his famous "Recherches sur la Vie et sur la Mort" (1800) dealt a deathblow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views.
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a death-blow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
chained_bear commented on the word iatrochemical
"The patients were not interested in the benefits of iatrochemical potions and were disdainful of innovation. So, instead of prescribing careful concoctions of mercury and antimony, we rebalanced humors like the most hidebound of Galenists...."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 147
October 7, 2008