iatrophysical, a.
(aɪætrəʊˈfɪzɪkəl)
[See iatro-.]
= iatromathematical a. b.
| 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 810/2 The iatro-physical school of medicine grew out of physiological theories. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Iatrophysical, of or belonging to what is medical and physical; anciently applied as an epithet of certain writings which treated of natural phenomena with relation to medicine. 1954 R. H. Major Hist. Med. I. 506 Borelli was unquestionably the perhaps unwitting founder of a new school of medicine—the Iatro-physical School, whose most extreme advocates sought the explanation of all medicine in physics or in mechanics, just as the Iatro-chemists found the ultimate explanation in fermentation. |