Definition of Iatrophysics. Meaning of Iatrophysics. Synonyms of Iatrophysics

- Iatrophysics or iatromechanics (fr. Gr****) is the medical application of physics. It provides an explanation for medical practices with mechanical principles...
- interested in the organs of procreation and influenced by Rene Descartes' iatrophysical approach. He submitted his doctoral thesis on the pancreas, and in 1665...
- by Giorgio Baglivi in his monograph De fibra motrice. An exponent of iatrophysics, he isolated muscle fibers and studied them using a compound microscope...
- and was critical of Jean and Daniel Bernoulli's work. Jurin worked on iatrophysics, investigating the mechanical behaviour of the heart and the specific...
- Buchan's conclusions about health were framed within academic theories of iatrophysics that would dominate the European medical world until the introduction...
- contagion Exorcism Experimentum crucis Fallacy of misplaced concreteness Iatrophysics Mill's Methods Natural history of disease Necessity and sufficiency Placebo-controlled...