Report, if you have a problem with this page“ A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian] iatrochemists since the beginning of the seventeenth century. What it lacked in bloodletting, this war made up for in bile. ”
Philip Ball
From : The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science