Iatrochemistry (or chemical medicine) is a branch of both chemistry and medicine. The word `Iatro` was the Greek word `doctor` or `medicine.` Having its roots in alchemy, iatrochemistry seeks to provide chemical solutions to diseases and medical ailments. This area of science has fallen out of use in Europe since the rise of modern establish...
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application of chemistry to medical theory
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• (n.) 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.I...
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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. ... Source: Web...
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I·a`tro·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 t...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ī-at′rō-kem′is-trē Definitions: 1. The study of chemistry in relation to physiologic and pathologic processes, and the treatment of disease by chemical substance as practiced by a school of medical thought in the 17th century.
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Iatrochemistry is a term for a form of chemistry used in medicine. The term was especially applied with regard to the doctrines in the school of 17th century Flanders physicians who believed that health depended upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemica...
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iatrochemistry, iatrochemical, chemiatry 1. A school of medicine active from 1525 to 1660; it theorized that life, health, and disease were the result of chemical balances, and that disease was to be treated chemically. Its most famous members were Paracelsus, J.B. van Helmont, and de la Boë Sylvius. 2. The study of chemistry in relation to physio...
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(in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
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