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Galen, engraving by Georg Paul Busch
Galen, engraving by Georg Paul Busch · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Galen

129–c. 216 · Physician and philosopher

A Greek from Pergamum who trained on gladiators’ wounds, became physician to Marcus Aurelius and wrote more than any other ancient author; his medicine ruled for fifteen hundred years.

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On the Natural Faculties, in Greek beside English.

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