Iatrochemistry vs Iatrochemist - What's the difference?
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(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)
Someone who practiced iatrochemistry.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 374:
*:Around 1604, Ribit and Mayerne helped a fellow Huguenot and iatrochemist named Jean Béguin establish a pharmaceutical laboratory in Paris, where he offered public lectures on chemical medicine.