Paracelsian iatrochemistry

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Paracelsian iatrochemistry was an early modern medical-chemical movement inspired by Paracelsus that sought to explain and treat disease through chemical principles and remedies rather than traditional Galenic humoral theory.

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Paracelsianism 2
Paracelsian iatrochemistry canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf early modern scientific movement
medical-chemical movement
theory of medicine
aimsTo produce specific remedies for specific diseases
associatedWith Paracelsian iatrochemistry self-linksurface differs
surface form: Paracelsianism
concerns explanation of disease
treatment of disease
contrastsWith Galenic therapeutics
contributedTo decline of purely humoral explanations of disease
medicalization of chemistry
developedInPeriod early modern period
emphasizes chemical causes of illness
dose-specific chemical drugs
metal-based medicines
mineral-based medicines
field iatrochemistry
focusesOn chemical remedies
historicalContext European medicine
Renaissance science
influenced early modern pharmacology
seventeenth-century iatrochemistry
inspiredBy Paracelsus
opposes Galenic humoral theory
rejects four humors theory
relatedTo alchemy
chymistry
uses chemical principles
distillation
extraction of active principles
laboratory techniques
viewsBodyAs chemical system
viewsDiseaseAs chemical imbalance

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Theodore de Mayerne movement Paracelsian iatrochemistry
Rosicrucianism influencedBy Paracelsian iatrochemistry
this entity surface form: Paracelsianism
Paracelsian iatrochemistry associatedWith Paracelsian iatrochemistry self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Paracelsianism