Aelius Galenus | Claudius Galenus | Galen of Pergamon Biography
Aelius #Galenus September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire.
Galen was considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity. He influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, #physiology , pathology, pharmacology, and #neurology , etc
Galen at age 16 began his studies at the prestigious local healing temple or asclepeion as a θεραπευτής (therapeutes, or attendant) for four years. There he came under the influence of men like #Aeschrion of #Pergamon , #Stratonicus and Satyrus.
Galen's father died in 148, leaving Galen independently wealthy at the age of 19. He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates' teaching and traveled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna, Corinth, #Crete, Cilicia Cyprus, and the medical school of Alexandria.
Galen went to Rome in 162 and made his mark as a practicing physician. His public demonstrations and impatience with alternative views on medicine brought him into conflict with other doctors practicing in the city.
Galen continued to work and write in his final years, finishing treatises on drugs and remedies as well as his compendium of diagnostics and therapeutics, which would have much influence as a medical text both in the Latin Middle Ages and Medieval #Islam .
Galen died in #Sicily at age 87, after 17 years studying medicine and 70 practicing it. He died about 216.
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