Galenic medicine

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Galenic medicine is an ancient medical system based on the theories of the Greek physician Galen, emphasizing humoral balance and systematic clinical observation, which profoundly shaped later medical traditions.

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Galenic medicine canonical 12
Unani medicine 2
Galenic corpus 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical medical tradition
medical system
aimsTo restore humoral equilibrium
associatedWith Galen
surface form: Galen of Pergamon
basedOn theories of Galen
challengedBy Harvey’s theory of blood circulation
anatomical discoveries of the Renaissance
classifies diseases by humoral excess or deficiency
codifiedBy Galen
contrastsWith germ theory of disease
coreTextualBasis Galenic medicine self-linksurface differs
surface form: writings of Galen
declinedIn 19th century
developedIn 2nd century CE
dominantIn Western medicine until early modern period
emphasizes humoral balance
systematic clinical observation
employs compound drugs
dietetic regulation
herbal remedies
phlebotomy
purging
frameworkFor pre-modern pharmacology in Europe
hasOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
historicallyPracticedIn Byzantine Empire
Islamic world
Western Christianity
surface form: Latin Christendom
influenced Islamic medicine
surface form: Islamic Golden Age medicine

Renaissance medicine
Persian medicine
surface form: Unani medicine

early modern European medicine
medieval European medicine
interpretsDiseaseAs imbalance of humors
relatedTo Hippocratic medical tradition
surface form: Hippocratic medicine
transmittedThrough Arabic medical translations
Latin medical texts
usesConcept black bile
blood
cold
dry
four humors
four qualities
hot
phlegm
wet
yellow bile
usesMethod clinical case observation
logical reasoning from symptoms
viewedBodyAs system governed by humoral and qualitative balance

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Islamic medicine influencedBy Galenic medicine
De vita libri tres influencedBy Galenic medicine
Galen movement Galenic medicine
Roman medicine hasText Galenic medicine
this entity surface form: Galenic corpus
Persian medicine influencedBy Galenic medicine
Galenic medicine coreTextualBasis Galenic medicine self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: writings of Galen
Syriac medical tradition adapts Galenic medicine
Syriac medical tradition sourceFor Galenic medicine
this entity surface form: Islamic Galenic corpus
Al-Majusi influencedBy Galenic medicine
Ibn al-Jazzar influencedBy Galenic medicine
The Canon of Medicine influencedBy Galenic medicine
Al-Hawi usesSource Galenic medicine
Kitab al-Mansuri influencedBy Galenic medicine
Kitab al-Adwiya al-Mufrada tradition Galenic medicine
this entity surface form: Greco-Arabic medicine
Hakim Ajmal Khan fieldOfWork Galenic medicine
this entity surface form: Unani medicine
De Gradibus (On Degrees) influencedBy Galenic medicine
subject surface form: De Gradibus
Withania usedIn Galenic medicine
this entity surface form: Unani medicine