iatrophysicistn.
/ʌɪatrəʊˈfɪzɪsɪst/ = iatromathematician n.
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methodist1640
mechanist1668
iatromathematician1727
mechanica1776
iatromechanic1856
iatromechanician1856
iatrophysicist1889
iatromechanist1943
1889 H. E. Handerson tr. J. H. Baas Outl. Hist. Med. 497 In therapeutics the Iatro-physicists..managed in accordance with the principles of genuine (Hippocratic) experience.
1917 A. H. Buck Growth of Med. xxviii. 366 It became customary to employ the terms, ‘iatrochemists’ and ‘iatrophysicists’ in speaking of the partisans of the two schools of medicine (the iatrochemical and the iatrophysical or iatromechanical).
1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. 201/1 The language and the theories of the iatrophysicists, the iatrochemists and the vitalists..have long been discarded.
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