Galen and the Gateway to Medicine
by Jeanne Bendick
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appears in Ancient Rome, Science, and History.
We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, his botanical wisdom and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He developed sports medicine,...
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appears in Ancient Rome, Science, and History.
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