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Galen (AD 129-200) of Pergamun: anatomist and experimental physiologist
1Department of Child Health, Univeristy of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Southmead, Bristol, UK. P.M.Dunn@bristol.ac.uk
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
|August 26, 2003
Abstract:
Galen was a brilliant anatomist and pioneer of experimental physiology. His many important discoveries exerted a profound influence on medicine during the next 1400 years. However, his wish to solve all the problems of health and disease led him to speculate and draw mistaken conclusions which were widely believed until after the Renaissance.