pneuma

medicine
Also known as: animus

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basis for pneumatism

  • In pneumatism

    …a subtle vapour called the pneuma; it was, in essence, an attempt to explain respiration.

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theories of Galen

  • Galen of Pergamum
    In Galen: Anatomical and medical studies

    …the brain to make psychic pneuma, a subtle material that is the vehicle of sensation. Galen’s physiological theory proved extremely seductive, and few possessed the skills needed to challenge it in succeeding centuries.

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