Pre-modern medicine: chemical school Clatrochemie) ,应少 o Flemish physician philosopher mystic, and chemist o van helmont demonstrated that acid was the digestive element in the stomach and was neutralized by alkali in the intestine and that blood combined with a"ferment from the air o His theory of "ferments"as the agents bringing about physiological processes is a crude precursor of the idea of enzymes Jan baptista van helmont ( fermentum) (1580-1644)
Pre-modern medicine: chemical school （Iatrochemie） Flemish physician, philosopher, mystic, and chemist van Helmont demonstrated that acid was the digestive element in the stomach and was neutralized by alkali in the intestine and that blood combined with a “ferment from the air”. His theory of “ferments” as the agents bringing about physiological processes is a crude precursor of the idea of enzymes (fermentum). Jan Baptista van Helmont (1580 -1644)
Pre-modern medicine: chemical school Clatrochemie) He was professor of medicine at the University of Leiden, Holland He believes that all life and disease processes are based on chemical actions That school of thought attempted to understand medicine in terms of universal rules of physics and chemistry Sylvius also introduced the concept of chemical affinity as a way to understand the way the human body FRANCISCUS DELEROE SYLVIUS, MEDICINA PRACTICA IN ACADYMIA LUGDL NO R \TAVA PROFES:OI uses salts and contributed greatly to Franciscus Sylvius the understanding of digestion and of (1614-1672) bodily fluids
Pre-modern medicine: chemical school （Iatrochemie） Franciscus Sylvius (1614-1672) He was professor of medicine at the University of Leiden, Holland He believes that all life and disease processes are based on chemical actions. That school of thought attempted to understand medicine in terms of universal rules of physics and chemistry. Sylvius also introduced the concept of chemical affinity as a way to understand the way the human body uses salts and contributed greatly to the understanding of digestion and of bodily fluids
Pre-modern medicine: physical school (iatrophysics) TABVLA QVARTA. RE Alfonso Borelli Fig 3 1608-1679 Italian physiologist physIcist an mathematician father of model biomechanics H ALPHONSI BORELl MOT U ANIMALIUM 1°HAXx15DEu1 DE MOTU MUSCULORUM R
Pre-modern medicine: physical school （Iatrophysics） Alfonso Borelli 1608-1679 Italian physiologist, physicist and mathematician father of modern biomechanics