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Dogmatists
Dogmatists, a sect of ancient physicians, of which Hippocrates was the first author. They are also called logici, logicians, from their using the rules of logic in subjects of their profession. They laid down definitions and divisions reducing diseases to certain genera, and those genera to species, and furnishing remedies for them all; supposing principles, drawing conclusions, and applying those principles and conclusions to particular diseases under consideration: in which sense the dogmatists stand contradistinguished from empirics and methodists. They reject all medicinal virtues that they think not reducible to manifest qualities: but Galen hath long ago observed of such men, that they must either deny plain matter of fact, or assign but very poor reasons and causes of many effects they pretend to explain.