iatromathematician
(-mæθɪməˈtɪʃən)
[f. as prec., after mathematician: in F. iatromathématicien.]
One belonging to the iatromathematical school.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Iatromathematician, a Physician, who considers Diseases, and their Causes mathematically, and prescribes according to mathematical proportions. 1838–9 Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. viii. §38. 362 Pitcairn and Boerhaave were leaders of the iatro-mathematicians. 1858 Whewell Hist. Sci. Ideas ix. ii. §3 II. 185 Several of the iatromathematicians were at the same time teachers of engineering and of medicine. |