The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific ... - Allen George Debus - Google Books

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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…