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The Doctoral Dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712): The Nervous Fluids and Iatrochymistry in Context (2023)

Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Author)
Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Editor)
Manning, Gideon (Editor)

Springer International Publishing
Pages: 323-347

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09722-5_15

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Nervous system Medical chemistry Dissertations, academic 18th century 17th century Helmont, Jan Baptista van Glisson, Francis Grew, Nehemiah Royal Society of London

The purpose of this paper is to set the doctoral dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) in context of seventeenth-century iatrochymical studies of the nervous system. In doing so, we will delineate the influence of Sylvius and Francis Glisson (1597–1677) upon his work, as well as analyze the chymical and religious motivations behind Grew’s rejection of the theories of chymist and physician Johann Van Helmont (1579–1644). We will also briefly examine to what extent his Disputatio medico-physica established the foundation of his later research program in the chymistry of the body, and his cataloguing of materia medica in the Royal Society Repository.

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