Iatromathematician

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

  Iatromathematician \I*a`tro*math`e*ma*ti"cian\, n. [Gr. ?
     physician + E. mathematician.] (Hist. Med.)
     One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of
     the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics
     and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager
     student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.


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