Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chemistry of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.
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- noun chemistry, medicine An early branch of
chemistry , having roots inalchemy , that tried to providechemical remedies todiseases .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Paracelsus is the last of the great alchemists; deeply concerned with the prolongation of life, he organizes iatrochemistry and directs it towards chemotherapy.
LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968
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The profession was literally ravaged by theories, schools and systems -- iatromechanics, iatrochemistry, humoralism, the animism of Stahl, the vitalistic doctrines of Van Helmont and his followers -- and into this metaphysical confusion Morgagni came like an old Greek with his clear observation, sensible thinking and ripe scholarship.
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Owing to the greater progress made in physics, iatrochemistry found fewer followers, and that it took root at all is the service of its chief representative Franz de le Boë Sylvius (1614-72), who in 1658 became professor of practical medicine at Leyden.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Iatrophysics was cultivated mainly in Italy and England; iatrochemistry in the Netherlands and Germany.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The profession was literally ravaged by theories, schools and systems -- iatromechanics, iatrochemistry, humoralism, the animism of Stahl, the vitalistic doctrines of Van Helmont and his followers -- and into this metaphysical confusion Morgagni came like an old Greek with his clear observation, sensible thinking and ripe scholarship.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
qms commented on the word iatrochemistry
Physicians expert in the humors
Looked into our stool for new tumors.
Let’s give them now clemency
For iatrochemistry,
A medicine based on thin rumors.
April 14, 2019