Iatrochemistry

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]