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Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the seco
Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Bethlehem Books
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 a
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-11 - Publisher: JHU Press
Galen is the most important physician of the Roman imperial era. Many of his theories and practices were the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his
Language: en
Pages: 367
Pages: 367
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial As