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Galenizm

Galenizm (used up.; Galenus page) – the scholastic direction in medicine which in the Middle Ages was canonized by Catholic church and dominated in Western Europe. Its basis was made by the idealistic concepts of the Ancient Greek doctor Galen interpreted unilaterally.

 
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