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.

2025年1月1日 · Galen (born 129 ce, Pergamum, Mysia, Anatolia [now Bergama, Turkey]—died c. 216) was a Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century.

2019年10月15日 · Galen (129-216 CE) was a Greek physician, author, and philosopher, working in Rome, who influenced both medical theory and practice until the middle of the 17th century CE. Owning a large, personal library, he wrote hundreds of medical treatises including anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and therapeutic works.

2022年12月28日 · After Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamum was the ancient world’s greatest doctor and personal physician to Marcus Aurelius. In today’s modern world, we tend to think of life in ancient times as an unrefined place inundated with disease, poverty, and crime.

Claudius Galen © Galen was a physician, writer and philosopher who became the most famous doctor in the Roman Empire and whose theories dominated European medicine for 1,500 years. Claudius...

Galen was a Greek who became the Roman Empire’s greatest physician, authoring more books still in existence than any other Ancient Greek: about 20,000 pages of his work survive. He was the personal physician to Rome’s Emperors for decades.

Galen was the greatest physician of ancient Rome. Whereas Hippocrates laid the foundation of Greek Medicine, Galen further developed its theory and practice, and carried Greco-Roman medicine to its zenith.

2024年10月22日 · Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient Greek physician after Hippocrates and is considered the father of pharmacology. He developed medical tools for surgery and dissection and wrote many volumes of his discoveries and observations, and was one of the leading thinkers in medicine.

2016年3月3日 · In Rome, Galen became a successful physician, which made him resented by the other physicians of the city. As he had created powerful enemies, he decided to depart secretly in 166 AD for fear that he might lose his life if he stayed any longer.

2022年11月30日 · Known simply as Galen, Aelius Galenus was a Greek physician who etched his name in the history books as one of the most accomplished physicians of the Roman Empire. Aside from his stellar contributions to medicine, Galen was also responsible for numerous advances in the fields of physiology, anatomy and pharmacology.