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Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /) or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
Jun 14, 2024 · Galen, Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century. His authority in the Byzantine world and the Muslim Middle East was similarly long-lived.
Galen was one of the most prominent ancient physicians as well as a philosopher (though most of his philosophical writings are lost). Nonetheless, his philosophical interests are quite evident in his practice of biological science. Galen made some key anatomical observations (though most of these were on other primates).
Mar 18, 2016 · Galen was one of the most prolific intellectuals of western antiquity, his works extending to 21 volumes of roughly 1000 pages each in the standard Greek edition (with a few additional works surviving only in Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew or Latin translations)—a total of more than 4 million words.
Galen, a second-century Greek physician and philosopher, rose from gladiators’ physician in Asia Minor to court physician in the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. He is considered the most important physician of the ancient world after Hippocrates.
Oct 15, 2019 · Galen (129-216 CE) was a Greek physician, author, and philosopher, working in Rome, who influenced both medical theory and practice until the middle of the 17th century CE. Owning a large, personal library, he wrote hundreds of medical treatises including anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and therapeutic works.
Galen was prolific, with hundreds of treatises to his name. He compiled all significant Greek and Roman medical thought to date, and added his own discoveries and theories.
Galen was a Greek who became the Roman Empire’s greatest physician, authoring more books still in existence than any other Ancient Greek: about 20,000 pages of his work survive. He was the personal physician to Rome’s Emperors for decades.
Galen , Latin Galenus, (born ad 129, Pergamum, Mysia, Anatolia—died c. 216), Greek physician, writer, and philosopher. He became chief physician to the gladiators in ad 157. Later, in Rome, he became a friend of Marcus Aurelius and physician to Commodus.
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen ( / ˈɡeɪlən /) or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
