10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALENISM»
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Galenism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Galenism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Galen and
Galenism: theory and medical practice from ...
The present collection deals with a wide array of issues regarding the historical Galen and late medieval and Renaissance Galenism, but focuses in particular on the relationship between theory and practice.
Luis García Ballester, 2002
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Medicine and the Five Senses
Bylebyl and Brockliss look at two episodes in the long history of Galenism.
Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century doctors may have seen the 'birth of the
clinic' as the contemporary recovery of a historical ideal. That ideal was
Hippocratic ...
William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, 1993
3
Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus ...
Furthermore, the majority of the followers of what may be called Hippocratic
Galenism adopted the New Anatomy and began applying it not only to theories
on the localization of illness, but also to the clarification of specific clinical cases
by ...
4
The Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes
B The Galenic Paradigm And Its Crisis Summary. Galenism forms the historical
background for the confrontation between vitalism and mechanism that begins in
the seventeenth century. In the course of development since antiquity, the
original ...
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Pestilence in Medieval & Early Modern English Literature
learning (Temkin, Galenism, 31). This sect “rejected both etiological research and
experience and inferred directly from the symptoms of disease to the status of the
body, which, they thought, was tense or relaxed” (Temkin, Galenism, 31–2).
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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
These questions concerned academic Galenism from the late 13th century
onward. The answers that Galenism offered in the course of the later Middle Ages
were neither unitary nor static. Galenism was sensitive to the different intellectual
...
Mordechai Feingold, Víctor Navarro Brotons, 2006
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Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 72, Part ...
In a careful analysis of Ḥunayn's visual theory,210 Lindberg proceeds to identify
important questions raised within the tradition of "Galenism."2" As he points out
initially, "The importance of these two books [by Hunayn] is not that they.
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Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy
It was indeed, essentially in the form of "Galenism" that Greek medicine was
transmitted to later ages.42 What Galenism means could, and has, occupied
volumes, since the medical philosophy in Galen's works or ascribed to him
provided a ...
Edward Kremers, Glenn Sonnedecker, 1986
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Four Treatises for the Reconsideration of the History of Science
It was disease theory that allowed Paracelsus to depart from Galenism and
expound his own etiology: Paracelsus recognized diseases as a primarily
exogenous phenomenon, as will later be demonstrated. Apart from etiological
issues, ...
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
See scholarly apparatus Sidney, Philip, 39, 40, 42, 68, 69, 162 Sigismund,
Emperor, 136 Singleton, Hugh, 42 skepticism Bright, 75-76 Donne, 75 English
Renaissance, 4-5, 74—77 France, 75, 76-77 and Galenism, 76 Hamlet, 5, 66, 79-
83, ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GALENISM»
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The Secrets Inside Us
It systematically dismantled the error-filled doctrine of Galenism, which rested in part on animal rather than human anatomy and had held sway ... «New York Times, Dec 13»
Oh, to be in England
But Shakespeare was not in thrall to Galenism as was his son-in-law: in other words, it was precisely his lack of university training that permitted him to be so ... «City Journal, Nov 05»
