a denomination given to such physicians as practise, prescribe, or write, on the galenical principles; and stand opposed to the chemists. See GALENICAL. At present the galenists and chemists are pretty well accommodated; and most of our physicians use the preparations and remedies of both.

or Galenites, in church history, a branch of Mennonites or Anabaptists, who take in several of the opinions of the Socinians, or rather Arians, touching the divinity of our Saviour. In 1664 the Waterlandians were divided into two parties, of which the one were called Galenits, and the other Apollonians. They are thus called from their leader Abr. Galenus, a learned and eloquent physician of Amsterdam, who considered the Christian religion as a system that laid much less stress on faith than practice; and who was for taking into the communion of the Mennonites all those who acknowledged the divine origin of the books of the Old and New Testament, and led holy and virtuous lives.