Van Helmont's work included defining operations of the body in chemical terms, claiming that iatrochemists stress the chemical reactions of effervescence, fermentation, and putrefaction as the basis of all physiology.
Van Helmont's work included defining operations of the body in chemical terms. Iatrochemists stress the chemical reactions of effervescence, fermentation, and putrefaction as the basis of all physiology. This was what Van Helmont's work was claiming.