different between iatrochemist vs spagyrist

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Back-formation from iatrochemistry.

iatrochemist (plural iatrochemists)

Someone who practiced iatrochemistry.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 374:
  Around 1604, Ribit and Mayerne helped a fellow Huguenot and iatrochemist named Jean Béguin establish a pharmaceutical laboratory in Paris, where he offered public lectures on chemical medicine.

From modern Latin spagirista, from spagiricus (“alchemy”) (probably invented by Paracelsus).

spagyrist (plural spagyrists)

(alchemy) An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.

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