iatromechanics

…an early exponent of the iatrophysical school of medicine, which attempted to explain the workings of the animal body on purely mechanical grounds, and he adapted several of Galileo’s inventions to medical practice, resulting in his development of a clinical thermometer (1612) and a pulse clock (1602).

…the medical mechanists, known as iatro-mechanists, for they eliminated the role of anima and reduced every vital phenomenon, physiological or pathological, to mechanical principles. Machines, he argued, would never produce the alacrity, precision, and spontaneity with which the organism responded to its needs and threats. Early literature on Stahl often…