Galenic

The conflation of milk with blood is ancient: the Galenic school believed that excessive menstruation could be solved by draining milk from the breasts and that blood, semen and milk were all variants of the same liquid.

Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze – review 2011

Cancer, Galenic theory suggested, was the result of a systemic malignant state, an internal overdose of black bile.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

The Galenic view was that an individual's life span was fixed by nature; thus, the goal of proper hygiene was to reach the allotted number of years.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In the winter of 1533, a nineteen-year-old student from Brussels, Andreas Vesalius, arrived at the University of Paris hoping to learn Galenic anatomy and pathology and to start a practice in surgery.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Translations of the Galenic and Hippocratic texts into Arabic in the ninth century spread humoralism throughout Muslim lands and during the Middle Ages these same texts were introduced into the Latin West, forming the basis of learned medicine for the next millennium.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In the winter of 1533, a nineteen-year-old student from Brussels, Andreas Vesalius, arrived at the University of Paris hoping to learn Galenic anatomy and pathology and to start a practice in surgery.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Querétaro, for example, had only two licensed doctors in 1787 to care for a population of 35,000.34 Filling this gap was a whole spectrum of healers representing various medical traditions, from rational Galenic therapy to magically oriented medical beliefs.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

“All this makes it (at first) a very different case from a cancer which appears in an elderly man, whose fluids are become acrimonious from time,” he wrote (paying sly homage to Galen, while undermining Galenic theory).

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

True to his Galenic training, Farfán explained this disease in terms of physical factors.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Basic to Galenic conceptions of the body was the idea that an individual's temperament, or complexión, was partly determined by the environment, especially the climate of one's birthplace.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008