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It was based on deductive reasoning,
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and came to be bound up in the authority of the ancients,
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with empiricism fading away;
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and indeed in later centuries
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it comes to be called "Library medicine."
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it was anchored in a cult of personality-- the cult of Galen,
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and through him of Hippocrates--
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and practiced a cult of antiquity,
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with knowledge almost becoming a form of revealed truth.
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So, Galenism involved authority and tradition,
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an elite medicine of
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of university-trained physicians who were involved,