ABSTRACT
This “medical chemistry” was developed in the sixteenth century as a new medicine rooted in chemistry. Iatro-chemistry viewed biological processes and medical remedies in chemical terms and initially rejected traditional humoral medicine. A synthesis of traditional and chemical medicine occurred in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as the value of chemical remedies was recognized. By the eighteenth century, iatrochemistry was subsumed by medicine as chemical medical theories developed more accepted medical applications.
