Word Meanings - IATROCHEMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

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• IATROCHEMISTRY
  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,
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• PRACTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
• PRACTIC
  1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• PRACTICIAN
  One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• CHEMICALLY
  According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
• PRACTICO
  A guide. D. C. Worcester.
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• EXPLAINABLE
  Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• PHYSICIAN
  physician, in F., a natural philosopher, an experimentalist in 1. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine. 2. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• IATROCHEMICAL
  Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• MICRO-CHEMICAL
  Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.