1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Annot. 461 Albeit I magnifie Chemicall Phisique, yet I do not lessen the due commendations that belong to Galenicall.

1671 H. Stubbe Reply Def. Royal Soc. 9 The Galenical Physicians are not..agreed.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 133 They are much us'd in Physick among several galenical Compositions.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Figure It is called the Fourth..and by others, the Galenical Figure.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvii. 263 Whether Chemical or Galenical Preparations.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. 214 My face was disguised by a galenical mask.

1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Galenical medicine, the medical principles taught by Galen, which consisted in an almost entire reliance on simples.

1880 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. Galenical Laboratory. [Wanted] In the above department of a wholesale druggist, a young man who thoroughly understands the manufacture of tinctures and galenical preparations on a large scale.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull II. 139 He was occasionally supplied with chymicals and galenicals.

1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 115 He swallowed at the least two pounds troy-weight of chemicals and galenicals.

1884 Times 14 Aug. 3 Suggestions had recently been made for standardizing some of our galenicals.

1774 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iii. §2 It [the fourth figure of syllogism] was added by the famous Galen, and is often called the Galenical.

1681 Salmon (title) Compendium of Physick..showing the Signs and Judgments of curing all Diseases perform'd Astrologically, Gallenically, and Chemically.

1694 London Gaz. No. 3020/4 The Cure of all sorts of Fevers; Galenically and Chymically performed.

1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in later Dicts.