Galenic medicine

In a chapter on the originall causes of all diseases in the greate worlde, and the little worlde, which is man, Bostocke recounted the story of the Fall in order to demonstrate that the binary principle of Galenic medicine, predicated on opposites, was corrupt. The serpent, Binarius , had persuaded Adam and Eve to eat the apple, Whereupon by the curse of God impure Seedes were mingled with the perfect seedes, and did cleave fast to them, and doe cover them as a garment and death was joyned to life. This impurity was in all... 

Galenical medicines These are medicines that contain natural, normally herbal, constituents following the methods of Galen, the 2nd-century AD Greek physician, gamete See germ cell. 

Ibid., 52. Purgantia were Galenic medicines for purification. ... 

On the centrality of purgative treatments to Galenic medicine, and their privileged place in comedy, see Gail Kern Paster, Covering His Ass The Scatological Imperatives of Comedy, in The Body Embarrassed Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 1993), 113-62. 

Paracelsus, who broke the rigid tradition of Galenic medicine, used realgar internally against cancerlike tumors (42) but more importantly gave cogency to the belief that there was a therapeutic window for toxic compounds in which... 

Galenical medicine continued to flourish. In 1685, de Rouviere, apothecary in ordinary to the King, exhibited the preparation of theriac, from 58 dozen vipers and a number of other constituents, to meetings of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in a series of lectures and demonstrations, the operation being finally finished with approbation and applause . ... 

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