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Learning the Chymical Compromise: Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in Marburg Disputations on Chymiatria (2021)

Moreau, Elisabeth (Author)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 68
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 154-179

DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1930676

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2021.1930676

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Physicians; doctors Professions and professionalization Lectures Theoretical chemistry Curriculum change Medical education and teaching Paracelsianism 17th century 16th century Germany Galen Hartmann, Johannes Petraeus, Heinrich University of Marburg

The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiatives aiming to integrate chymistry into the medical curriculum. If its practical applications in pharmacy and its relationship with patronage have been examined by historians, the theoretical part of the chymiatria programme still remains to be explored. In the form of student disputations and dissertations held or presided over by Heinrich Petraeus, a professor of medicine at Marburg and Johannes Hartmann’s son-in-law, “chymiatric” essays expounded various medical issues. Centred on pathology, therapy, and physiology, these theoretical explanations proposed a “hermetic–dogmatic” interpretation merging the views of Paracelsus and Galen. This article examines these disputations and their stance concerning the living body, sickness, and treatment, and how they shaped the status of chymistry as an art and a science on the verge of institutionalisation.

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Article Ute Frietsch (2021) Alchemy and the Early Modern University: An Introduction. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 119-134). unapi

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