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  2. Galen - Wikipedia

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    Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD. [6] His father, Aelius Nicon, was a wealthy patrician, an architect and builder, with eclectic interests including philosophy, mathematics, logic, astronomy, agriculture and literature. Galen describes his father as a "highly amiable, just, good ...

  3. Food and diet in ancient medicine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Medicine in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    In 166, Galen returned to Pergamon, but went back to Rome for good in 169. Galen followed Hippocrates' theory of the four humours, believing that one's health depended on the balance between the four main fluids of the body (blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm). Food was believed to be the initial object that allowed the stabilization of ...

  5. Ancient Greek medicine - Wikipedia

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    His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys, especially the Barbary macaque, and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius [49] [50] where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated ...

  6. Medicine in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    In medical theory, al-Razi relied mainly on Galen, but his particular attention to the individual case, stressing that each patient must be treated individually, and his emphasis on hygiene and diet reflect the ideas and concepts of the empirical hippocratic school. Rhazes considered the influence of the climate and the season on health and ...

  7. 12 of the best investing books, from deep dives to lighter reads

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    “The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life” Compiled from letters written to his daughter, author JL Collins shares his investing experiences and ...

  8. Kitāb al-Diryāq - Wikipedia

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    Book of Antidotes of Pseudo-Galen (Kitāb al-Diryāq). [6] "In the paintings the facial cast of these [ruling] Turks is obviously reflected, and so are the special fashions and accoutrements they favored". [7] [8] This copy, from the second quarter of the 13th century, is thought to have been produced in Mosul. [1]

  9. Jim Gaffigan on adjusting to the painful new reality: "How ...

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    It's obviously not what I wanted but that's life. I'm not going to lie. It been an adjustment, but the world continues to spin. And I'm an adult. I have children that are counting on me.