iatrochemistry

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English - English
An early branch of chemistry, having roots in alchemy, that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases
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} study of chemistry for medical purposes (mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries)