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[2] [8] Galen's work was likely written in the early months of 193 AD, after the death of the emperor Commodus, as Peri Alypias includes critical remarks around his reign. [9] Letter writing was a conventional form in antiquity for works that addressed the "therapy of emotions", as followed by Plutarch and Seneca .
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 was concerned to combine philosophical thought with medical practice, as in his brief work That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher he took aspects from each group and combined them with his original thought. He regarded medicine as an interdisciplinary field that was best practiced by utilizing theory, observation, and ...
Galen also found that an excess of the fluids could make someone sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, or melancholic. [28] His anatomic knowledge of humans was defective because it was based on dissection of animals, mainly apes, sheep, goats and pigs. [29] Some of Galen's teachings held back medical progress.
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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 ...
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