organicists

Updated: July 11, 2025

This force, or whatever it might be called, was supposed to be present everywhere in the body, and all diseases were the results of it. The theory of the Organicists, like that of the Animists and Vitalists, agreed with the other two that vital activity could not be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry, but, unlike them, it held that it was a part of the structure of the body itself.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4