A physician or medical treatment.
Greek iatros, physician.
The only common term here is iatrogenic, relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment. Iatrochemistry is a school of thought of the 16th and 17th centuries which sought to understand medicine and physiology in terms of chemistry; iatrology is a rare term for the science of medicine.
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