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What is Galenism?

What is Galenism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The principles and practices of Galen.
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This anatomical atlas, although drawn from dissection, did not reject Galenism as did the Fabrica of Vesalius.
While Cavendish was in many respects a Galenist, I show that she also reinterpreted Galenism in terms of her own theory of matter and an occasionalist theory of causation.
It is essentially in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to after ages.
In doing so he destroyed the foundation of the whole teaching of Galenism and the belief in its authority, and paved the way for the free investigation of nature.
In direct challenge to the humoral therapeutics of Galenism, Paracelsus and his followers introduced new, often toxic, chemicals into medical use.
Developments in medicine during the Renaissance played a fundamental part in the process of extinction of Galenism.

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