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The means the Galenist employed were chiefly diet and vegetable remedies, with the use of the lancet and other depleting agents.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Riverius, who lived from 1589 to 1655, was a staunch Galenist.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.

Ross supports the Galenist tradition that the liver, not, as Digby claimed, the heart, forms first in development.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.