JOHANNES HARTMANN,

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE,

FORMERLY THE MOST RENOWNED PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL MEDICINE original: "Chymiatriae"; a term for early modern iatrochemistry, the practice of applying chemical principles to medical therapy. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, AND CHIEF PHYSICIAN original: "Archiatri"; the title for a head physician, often serving a royal court. TO THE PRINCES OF HESSE,

THE PRACTICE

OF CHEMISTRY,

JOHANNES MICHAELIS,

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE, AND EXTRAORDINARY PROFESSOR AT THE SAME INSTITUTION:

GEORG EVERHARD HARTMANN,

THE AUTHOR’S SON.

THREE TREATISES.

I. On various Oils chemically distilled.
II. The Royal Court of Antimony original: "Basilica Antimonii"; the term "Basilica" suggests a "royal" or essential work. Antimony was a highly significant, if controversial, substance in the development of chemical medicine. by Hamerus Poppius of Thallin.
III. The Method of Marco Cornachini, Doctor of Medicine, by which all afflictions of the Human Body arising from humors Traditional medicine believed health was governed by the balance of four fluids or "humors": blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. faulty in quantity or quality are cured both Chemically and Galenically original: "Chymicè & Galenicè"; "Galenic" refers to the traditional medicine based on the teachings of the Greek physician Galen, which emphasized herbal remedies and humoral balance..

Volume I.