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Galenical   Listen
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Galenical, Galenic  adj.  Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.





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... of the chief remedies used by our earlier physicians, which were both Galenic and chemical; that is, vegetable and mineral. They, of course, employed the usual perturbing medicines which Montaigne says are the chief reliance of their craft. There were, doubtless, individual practitioners who employed special ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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