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Galen [ˈgeɪlən] n (Biographies / Galen (?130-?200) M, Greek, MEDICINE: physician, MEDICINE: anatomist, SCIENCE: physiologist) Latin name Claudius Galenus. ?130-?200 ad, Greek physician, anatomist, and physiologist. He codified existing medical knowledge and his authority continued until the Renaissance
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Socrates, Aristotle, Galen, were men full of ostentation. The oldest doctor in town contented himself with remarking that no such thing as inoculation was mentioned by Galen or Hippocrates; and it was impossible that modern physicians should be wiser than those old sages. No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong. |
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