Galenical Definition

gā-lĕnĭ-kəl, gə-
noun
A medicine prepared from plants, according to a fixed recipe, as opposed to drugs of known chemical composition.
Webster's New World
A medicinal preparation composed mainly of herbal or vegetable matter.
American Heritage Medicine
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adjective

A medicinal preparation concocted mostly out of herbs or vegetable matter, after Galen, the Greek physician and writer of the second century.

Wiktionary

Galenic.

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Other Word Forms of Galenical

Noun

Singular:
galenical
Plural:
galenicals

Origin of Galenical

  • After Galen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Galenical Sentence Examples

  • Through the Arabs the Galenical system found its way back again to western Europe.

  • In Italy, Bologna and Padua were earliest distinguished for medical studies - the former preserving more of the Galenical tradition, the latter being more progressive and Averroist.

  • This, like the earlier German works of the same kind (on which it was partly founded), contains both the traditional (Galenical) and the modern or chemical remedies.

  • The principle which mainly distinguished it was not merely the use of chemical medicines in addition to the traditional, or, as they were called in distinction, "Galenical" remedies, but a theory of pathology or causation of disease entirely different from the prevailing "humoral" pathology.

  • The remedies he employed were partly galenical, partly chemical.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAL

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