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The Galenic corpus is the collection of writings of Galen, a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire during the second century CE ...
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.
Hippocratic Corpus (c. 400 BCE to 200 CE) - Contains many important medical treatises including the Hippocratic Oath. [3] Compared with the Egyptian papyri, the Hippocratic writings exhibit an improved understanding of brain structure and function. It correctly attributed the primary control of the body's function to the brain. [2]
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 ...
Oribasius's major works, written at the behest of Julian, are two collections of excerpts from the writings of earlier medical scholars, a collection of excerpts from Galen and the Medical Collections (Ἰατρικαὶ Συναγωγαί, Iatrikai Synagogai; Latin: Collectiones medicae), a massive compilation of excerpts from other medical writers of the ancient world.
Galenic formulation deals with the principles of preparing and compounding medicines in order to optimize their absorption. Galenic formulation is named after Claudius Galen , a 2nd Century AD Greek physician , who codified the preparation of drugs using multiple ingredients.
The text should probably read that 'more Galenic writing has survived than any other author'. User talk:ophiochos 30-4-2019 The source cited clearly says "Galen was the most prolific author of classical antiquity", not merely that more of his work survives than any other.
Meges (Greek: Μέγης; 1st century BC) was an eminent surgeon born at Sidon in Phoenicia, [1] who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the 1st century BC. [2]