Iatrochemistry
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Iatrochemistry is an archaic pre-scientific school of thought that was supplanted by modern chemistry and medicine. Having its roots in alchemy, iatrochemistry sought to provide chemical solutions to
Frontispiece to Thomas Willis' 1663 book Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae - quarum prior agit de fermentatione, a treatise on fermentation as a mysterious key to transformations (from mash to beer or from health to fevers), engraved and published by Gerbrandus Schagen in Amsterdam
An image representing water distillation by means of the sun for creating aqua vitae, from Coelum philosophorum by Philippus Ulstadius, 1527
Paracelsus
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Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Iatrochemistry
…rise of modern establishment medicine. Iatrochemistry was popular between 1525 and 1660, especially in the Low Countries. Its most notable leader was Paracelsus, an important Swiss alchemist of the 16th century. Iatrochemists believed that physical health was dependent on a specific balance of bodily fluids…
1538 portrait by Augustin Hirschvogel
The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of "fat" Paracelsus
The University of Basel, where Paracelsus started working as a professor in 1527
Monument to Paracelsus in Beratzhausen, Bavaria