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The French Paracelsians - The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France (Paperback, Revised)
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The French Paracelsians - The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France (Paperback, Revised)
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The far-reaching debates arising from the development of chemistry
and its application to medicine during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries are the subjects of this book. Shortly after
the medical authority of Galen had been reestablished in the
Renaissance, the Swiss-German firebrand, Paracelsus, proposed a new
approach to natural philosophy and medicine utilizing chemistry.
The resulting arguments between Paracelsians and Galenists lasted
for more than a century and affected the medical establishments of
every European country. In France, the confrontation was
particularly bitter, with the Medical Faculty in Paris determined
to block the introduction of chemistry to medicine in any field.
The author discusses these issues not only with respect to
pharmaceutical chemistry and the chemical cosmology of the
Paracelsians, but also the development of chemical physiology and
its struggle with the brand of medicine influenced by the
mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century. The academic
acceptance of chemistry is revealed, and the triumph of the
mechanists in the scientific academies is shown to have been only
partial at best, because the learned journals of the early
eighteenth century continued to review large numbers of books
inspired by medical chemistry. This persistent interest in medical
chemistry is shown to be significant to the Chemical Revolution and
an aspect of the Scientific Revolution that deserves recognition by
historians.
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