Claudius Galen

Galen’s human anatomy chart Born in Pergamum (now Turkey) in 129 ce, Claudius Galen spent several years studying in Alexandria, Egypt, before returning home to work as a DOCTOR at the local gladiator school. Here he learned about human anatomy by treating the gladiators after bloody battles. His reputation earned him the post of personal doctor to the

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

The doctor whose influential writings advanced MEDICAL SCIENCE

Galen’s drawing of blood circulating through the human heart

Anatomy expert

Many of Galen’s discoveries about the human body proved true. He realized the arteries contain blood, not air as previously thought. Galen was the first to understand that urine is created in the kidneys rather than the bladder. His appetite for anatomical knowledge made him compile the HISTORY OF GREEK AND ROMAN MEDICINE, combined with his own theories. Galen’s ideas were universally accepted for 1,500 years before medical science How he changed… advanced again.

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