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Iatrochemistry
I-aˊtro-chem′is-try
,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.
Definition 2024
iatrochemistry
iatrochemistry
English
Noun
iatrochemistry (uncountable)
- (chemistry, medicine) An early branch of chemistry, having roots in alchemy, that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases; alternatively, the application of chemistry to medical theory.
- 2003: A parallel bid to read the body in terms of the new science came from iatrochemistry. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 53)
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an early branch of chemistry that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases
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