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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IATROCHEMISTRY (coined from Gr. tarp6s, a physician, and " chemistry ")  , a stage in the
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history of chemistry, during which the
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object of this science was held to be " not to make gold but to prepare medicines." This
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doctrine dominated chemical thought during the 16th century, its foremost sup-porters being Paracelsus,
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van Helmont and de la Boe Sylvius . But it gave way to the new definition formulated by Boyle, viz. that the proper domain of chemistry was " to determine the composition of substances." (See CHEMISTRY: I .

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