The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiatives aiming to integrate chymistry into the medical curriculum. If its practical applications in pharmacy and its relationship with patronage have been examined by historians, the theoretical part of the chymiatria programme still remains to be explored. In the form of student disputations and dissertations held or presided over by Heinrich Petraeus, a professor of medicine at Marburg and Johannes Hartmann’s son-in-law, “chymiatric” essays expounded various medical issues. Centred on pathology, therapy, and physiology, these theoretical explanations proposed a “hermetic–dogmatic” interpretation merging the views of Paracelsus and Galen. This article examines these disputations and their stance concerning the living body, sickness, and treatment, and how they shaped the status of chymistry as an art and a science on the verge of institutionalisation.

马尔堡大学创建的糜烂教席是最早旨在将糜烂学纳入医学课程的学术举措之一。如果历史学家研究了它在药学中的实际应用及其与赞助的关系，那么chymiatria的理论部分方案仍有待探索。以马尔堡医学教授海因里希·彼得雷乌斯和约翰内斯·哈特曼的女婿海因里希·彼得雷乌斯主持或主持的学生辩论和论文的形式，“糜烂”论文阐述了各种医学问题。这些理论解释以病理学、治疗学和生理学为中心，提出了一种融合了帕拉塞尔苏斯和盖伦观点的“封闭-教条”解释。本文探讨了这些争论及其对生物体、疾病和治疗的立场，以及它们如何塑造了 chymistry 作为一门处于制度化边缘的艺术和科学的地位。