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- noun An advocate of
Galenism .
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Examples
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Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an [6648] Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure.
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Galenist employed were chiefly diet and vegetable remedies, with the use of the lancet and other depleting agents.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The means the Galenist employed were chiefly diet and vegetable remedies, with the use of the lancet and other depleting agents.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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