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Ancient Greek Doctors
Title: Ancient Greek Doctors
Category: History
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Ancient Greek Doctors
Hippocrates and Galen
Comparative study between the best Greek Medical doctors of ancient Times.
Introduction
As The Greek empire declined, Rome inherited its medical traditions and knowledge. During the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D health standards dropped considerably and outbreaks occurred of life threatening diseases. Galen of Pergamon, a follower of Hippocrates, gathered much of the medical knowledge of the time and added to it his studies of anatomy and physiology (mostly of animals). …showed first 75 words of 1154 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1154 total…blood vessels as the base of the brain of ungulate animals, was also present in humans. He had 20 scribes to write down all his words and dictums, he was not Christian yet his writings reflected only one God and declared the body to be an instrument of the soul.
Galen experimented on animals for physiological purposes. The work On the use of the parts of the human body consisted of seventeen books of this topic.
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