Galen Claudius

Γαληνός Κλαύδιος

Griechische Medizin: Galen


Galen on a Greek Stamp.

Never as yet have I gone astray, whether in treatment or in prognosis, as have so many other physicians of great reputation. . . . Whoever seeks fame by deed, not alone by learned speech, need only become familiar, at small cost of trouble, with all that I have achieved by active research during the course of my entire life.
Galen

Galen (c. 130/1 AD - c. 199/201 AD, some say even that he died 217 AD) Greek philosopher-physician was born in File)

Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates, Canon of Medicine.

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