Matthias Untzer (1581-1624),German physician. The border gives the Latinised version of his name (Matthias Unzerus),states that he was born in Halle in what was then Saxony,is a medical doctor,and is shown in his 34th year in 1615. Unzter studied in Leipzig,Tubingen and Padua. He qualified as a physician in Basle. He was an iatrochemist,a discipline that attempted to apply chemical and alchemical principles to medicine and the treatment of disease. His works include 'De Sulphure Tractatus Medico-Chymicus' (1620) and 'Anatomia Mecurii Spagirica' (1620). Artwork from Unzter's 'Katoptron Ioimodes' (1615),a book on the plague epidemic | |
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