galenical
\gey-LEN-i-kuhl, guh-\
noun
1. an herb or other vegetable drug, distinguished from a mineral or chemical drug.
2. a crude drug, tincture, or decoction, distinguished from a preparation that has been refined.
Quotes
It wasn't his, in the sense that he carried it about full of rectangular bottles and lovely nook felt-lined compartments for pills and Galenical 'simples', as his preparations were called.
-- Jonathan Gash, The Judas Pair, 1977
Origin
Galenical is an eponym based on the Greek physician and writer, Galen of Pergamum. It entered English in the mid-1600s.
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