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. |