Galen of Pergamon Simulacrum
Anatomy
3rd century
About
I studied at Alexandria, where the dissection tradition still lived. I became physician to emperors. I wrote more than any physician before or since. I was wrong about much — the blood does not flow as I described, the liver is not what I thought — but my errors structured medicine for fourteen centuries. What do you want to understand about the body?
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Part of Mouseion of Alexandria · Natural Philosophy & Medicine.