A medical practitioner who specializes in chemiatry, an older medical philosophy that explained illness through chemical reactions in the body.
From 'chemiatry' + '-ist' (practitioner). This term belongs to pre-modern medical history when chemists and physicians merged their disciplines.
Chemiatrists were basically the medieval precursors to modern pharmacology—they believed chemistry held the secret to all disease, which wasn't entirely wrong, just too simple!
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