Heinrich Petraeus

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Heinrich Petraeus (Henricus Petraeus) (1589-1620) was a German physician and writer. He is known for his Nosologia harmonica dogmatica et hermetica (1615).[1] It was an attempt to find concord in rival medical theories of the time.^[1]

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1. ^ Petraeus sought to conciliate the major points of difference between then Chemical Physicians and the Galenists: this PDF, Allen Debus, Chemistry and the Universities in the Seventeenth Century.