iatromechanical

“Page 136, Volume 3 logical counterpart of Cartesian physics, it was a theo - retical culmination of the iatromechanical current which had already become widespread in the medical sciences of the first half of the seventeenth century.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

“Borelli, author of the famous work on "The Motion of Animals" (Rome, 1680-1681), brought to the study of the action of muscles a profound knowledge of physics and mathematics and really founded the mechanical, or iatromechanical school.”

The Evolution of Modern Medicine

“The Iatrophysical school (also called iatromathematical, iatromechanical, or physiatric) was founded on theories of physiology, probably by Borelli, of Naples (1608-1679), although Sanctorius; Sanctorius, a professor at Padua, was a precursor, if not directly interested in establishing it.”

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science

“154 His "Anatomic Générale," published in 1802, gave an extraordinary stimulus to the study of the finer processes of disease, and his famous "Recherches sur la Vie et sur la Mort" (1800) dealt a deathblow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views.”

The Evolution of Modern Medicine

“a death-blow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views.”

The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913