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What is iatrochemistry?

What is iatrochemistry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) 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.
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But like its Galenic enemy, Paracelsan iatrochemistry declined in the second half of the seventeenth century.
A parallel bid to read the body in terms of the new science came from iatrochemistry.
In 1608, Oswald Croll published his Basilica chymica, a treatise devoted to a predominantly Paracelsian iatrochemistry.
Thoren talks a great deal about alchemy, but it always sounds like Paracelsian iatrochemistry to me.
The term iatrochemistry means the use of chemistry in medicine which was unheard of before Paracelsus.
He was the opponent of iatrochemistry, and claimed there was no such thing as corruption of the blood.

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