biography
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Galen
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in full Claudius Galenus
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pronunciation:
[gaylen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.130–201)
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| biography:
| Greek physician, born in Pergamum, Mysia. He studied medicine at Pergamum, Smyrna, Corinth, and Alexandria, and later lived in Rome. He wrote at length on medical and philosophical subjects, and gathered up all the medical knowledge of his time, thus becoming the authority used by subsequent Greek and Roman medical writers. |
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