iatromechanicsn.

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Iatromechanics, the same as Iatromathematics.

1889 H. E. Handerson tr. J. H. Baas Outl. Hist. Med. 496 Subsequently an effort was made to bring Iatro-chemistry into accord with Iatro-mechanics.

1926 C. G. Cumston Introd. Hist. Med. xvii. 274 Specificity..was to end in a sort of Kabbalism or in union with chemistry or physics.., and, from the latter, were soon to develop the new systems of Iatro-chemistry and Iatro-mechanics.

1953 M. H. Fisch in E. A. Underwood Sci., Med. & Hist. I. iv. 546 It was perhaps on the strength of the Neapolitan edition of this his major work, a contribution to iatromechanics along Cartesian lines, that Santanelli became professor of medicine at Naples in 1708.

1856 C. G. Comegys tr. P.-V. Renouard Hist. Med. viii. x. 548 The Iatro-chemists and the Iatro-mechanics had attempted in vain to explain the functions of organized bodies by the general laws of matter.

1899 F. S. Lee tr. M. Verworn Gen. Physiol. i. 18 The hopes of the iatromechanics and iatrochemists of being able completely to resolve vital phenomena into physics and chemistry were not fulfilled.

1856 C. G. Comegys tr. P.-V. Renouard Hist. Med. viii. xi. 576 The essence of inflammation consists..with the Iatromechanician, in the obstruction of the vessels.

1926 C. G. Cumston Introd. Hist. Med. xix. 320 Lancisi, Hecquet and Baglivi.—These three names are those of the leaders of organicism at the beginning of the XVIIIth century. They were supposed to be Iatro-mechanicians with a smattering of Hippocraticism and Galenism.

1943 Garrison & Morton Med. Bibliogr. 6 Hoffmann of Halle was the most important of the Iatromechanists. He believed an ether-like ‘vital fluid’ to be present in the nervous system and to act upon the muscular system, giving them ‘tonus’.

1955 E. H. Ackerknecht Short Hist. Med. x. 111 The iatrochemists were never accepted to the extent that the iatromechanists were.