Define the word Iatrochemistry"Iatrochemistry" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Iatrochemistry \I*a`tro*chem"is*try\, 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.
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