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Research on Galen and William Harvey.
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Madhav Manek 4V 11th November 2003 Research on Galen and William Harvey Galen (129-c. 199) Galen was the most outstanding physician of antiquity after Hippocrates. His anatomical studies on animals and observations of how the human body functions dominated medical theory and practice for 1,400 years. Galen was born of Greek parents in Pergamum, Asia Minor, which was then part of the Roman Empire. A shrine to the healing god Asclepius was located in Pergamum, and there young Galen observed how the medical techniques of the time were used to treat the ill or wounded. He received his formal medical training in nearby Smyrna and then travelled widely, gaining more medical knowledge. In about 161 he settled in Rome, where he became renowned for his skill as a doctor, for his animal dissections, and his public lectures. In about 169 the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius appointed Galen as the physician to his son,...
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