Matthias Untzer (1581-1624) was a German physician. He studied in Leipzig, Tubingen and Padua and qualified as a physician in Basle. He was an iatrochemist, a discipline that attempted to apply chemical and alchemical principles to medicine and the treatment of disease. His works include "De Sulphure Tractatus Medico-Chymicus" (1620) and "Anatomia Mecurii Spagirica" (1620). Artwork from Unzter's "Katoptron Ioimodes", a book on the plague epidemic. Line engraving by C. G. Grahl, 1615.

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Matthias Untzer, German Physician

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