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galenic

[gə′len·ik]
(mineralogy)
Containing galena. Also known as galenical.
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According to Galenic, its Confort Supreme Revitalising Duo Serum is a highly concentrated skincare product rich in argan oil,"formulated with the company's finest tradition to radiate an intense feeling of well-being and hydration, without any noticeable residue thanks to its extremely powerful nourishing properties." It is described as a "new generation serum, a biphase serumliquid care, rich in nourishing and hydrating agents, formulated with a patented and innovative encapsulation technology by Galenic that, during agitation, traps the oily phase within the moisturizing phase, creating a fluid and homogeneous dispersion, without any greasy effect during the application."
The concepts discussed in Cause et Cure incorporate the dominant medical writings constructed by Hippocratic and Galenic tenets of humoral physiology and pathology, as well as medieval theological principles.
My sincere thanks to Dr GhaithAl Badri for pointing out an error in the article I published on Galenic Medicine in fATMS fune 2013 which mistakenly referred to an image of a book as a 'Persian Galenic text'.
Vesalius identified errors in Galen's texts, particularly the fact that Galenic anatomy was based on animal, not human, dissections.
Julie Solomon, in her essay, takes a distinctly different approach to the passions and does not rely primarily on Galenic writings.
It would be 600 years before further advancement was made, by way of Galenic medicine (Galen, 130-200 CE), a mere tinkering with the Hippocratic notions using a critically different method, known as active observations.
I am sure many scholars of Galenic thought would be as surprised as I am at that statement.
Apart from the rather probable derivation from chole (the word for bile and a dominant term in the humoral theory, which is of Hippocratic and not Galenic [1] provenance), one more hypothesis has been suggested.
The case concerns the distribution contracts of cosmetics and personal care products, sold under the brands Klorane, Ducray, Galenic and Avene laboratories.
The spiritual definition of hard-heartedness as a problematic cooling or spiritual insensitivity emerged directly from the early modern Galenic conception of the heart as the "body's furnace" (Laqueur 105), as well as the source of heat, life, and sensation (Erickson 2).