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, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
17th-century, 2006, antimony, doctors, medicine, paracelsus, puns