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- noun A
vegetable orherbal remedy asprescribed by Galen; asimple cure.
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Examples
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Policy makers all around the planet constantly create the problems they are trying to solve, as if a Galenical theory of policy was ruling the world.
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Policy makers all around the planet constantly create the problems they are trying to solve, as if a Galenical theory of policy was ruling the world.
On Shakespeare, Medicine, and Orwell - The Austrian Economists 2006
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Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them; they work by their substance and their weight.
Dedication Vergil 1909
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The older writers on India fancied that the Hindoo system of medicine was of enormous antiquity, and that the principles of Galenical medical science were ultimately derived from India.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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The Preparations of the _Cortex_, both Galenical and Chymical, have not succeeded.
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The Conferences of the Chymists being finished, the Empress made an Assembly of her Galenical Physicians, her Herbalists and Anatomists; and first she enquired of her Herbalists the particular effects of several Herbs and Drugs, and whence they proceeded?
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668
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Dalrymple explains how the Galenical theory of humors ruled Western medicine for hundreds of years, even though it couldn’t cure people much.
On Shakespeare, Medicine, and Orwell - The Austrian Economists 2006
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Dalrymple explains how the Galenical theory of humors ruled Western medicine for hundreds of years, even though it couldn’t cure people much.
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When it comes to our attempts to understand the phenomena of our own society, I cannot help but wonder how many of us are in the grip of theories that are the equivalent of Hall’s Galenical theory, and whether as a result we do not prescribe the legislative equivalents of human skull, mummy dust, and jaw of pike.
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When it comes to our attempts to understand the phenomena of our own society, I cannot help but wonder how many of us are in the grip of theories that are the equivalent of Hall’s Galenical theory, and whether as a result we do not prescribe the legislative equivalents of human skull, mummy dust, and jaw of pike.
On Shakespeare, Medicine, and Orwell - The Austrian Economists 2006
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