Galenistn.
/ˈɡeɪlənɪst/ One of those who followed the medical principles and practice of Galen.
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1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 249 This needie Gallaunt..rayleth on our Galenists, and calls them dull gardners and hay-makers in a mans belly.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vii. sig. G1 What Gallenist or Paracelsian in the world, by all his water-casting, and minerall extractions, would iudge [etc.].
1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) xvi. 131 I had rather fall into the hands of an unskilful Gallenist, than of a rash and ignorant Chymist.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Galenists stand opposed to the Chymists.
1869 O. W. Holmes Med. Ess. (1883) vi. 319 These Galenists were what we should call ‘herb-doctors’ to-day.
1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 536 Sir Theodore Mayerne, the King's physician, who had been driven from Paris by the intolerance of the Galenists.
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1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 236 They excell all Galenisticall compositions for the eradicating inveterate maladies.
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