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Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus [2] (Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /) or Galen of Pergamon, [3] was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
In the same year he was elected surgeon to the public dispensary and demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school, where he was successively lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery. He was twice president of the school, and when the new university of Leeds was inaugurated in October 1904 Wheelhouse was made hon. D.Sc.
Galen produced more work than any author in antiquity, [1] His surviving work runs to over 2.6 million words, and many more of his writings are now lost. [1]Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig (1754–1840) published an edition of 122 of Galen's writings between 1821 and 1833.
Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. AD 216) [20] was a prominent Greek [21] physician, whose theories dominated Western medical science for well over a millennium. [22] By the age of 20, he had served for four years in the local temple as a therapeutes ("attendant" or "associate") of Asclepius .
Claudius Galen Guesses At It. Perhaps the most famous doctor to come out of the Roman empire, Claudius Galen acknowledges the clitoris and theorizes that “all the parts, then, that men have, women have too, the difference between them lying in only one thing, namely, that in women the parts are within, whereas in men they are outside.”
Galen was a prolific writer from whose surviving works comes what Galen believed to be the definitive guide to a healthy diet, based on the theory of the four humours. [13] Galen understood the humoral theory in a dynamic sense rather than static sense such that yellow bile is hot and dry like fire; black bile is dry and cold like earth; phlegm ...
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
personal physician of emperor Claudius: Galen: 2nd–3rd century CE: Greek: developer of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology: Ge Hong: 4th century CE: Chinese: originator of First Aid in TCM Heliodorus: 1st century CE: Greek: wrote on medical technique Herodotus (physician) 1st–2nd century CE: Greek