In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
IATROCHEMISTRY
Etymology
Noun
iatrochemistry (uncountable)
(chemistry, medicine) An early branch of chemistry, having roots in alchemy, that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases; alternatively, the application of chemistry to medical theory.
Source: Wiktionary
I*a`tro*chem"is*try, n.
Definition: Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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