He had also sampled various special fields of learning, being unable to miss some study of divinity, Justinian ( law ), and Galen ( medicine ).

Additional works by Alexander are preserved in Arabic translation, these include: On the Principles of the Universe, On Providence, and Against Galen on Motion.

This was one of the earliest examples of a postmortem autopsy, through which he discovered that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

* William Galen Gray chronology — Timeline of Conan's Journeys ( 1997, rev.

2004 ), was fan William Galen Gray's attempt to create " a chronology of all the stories, both Howard and pastiche.

Hippocrates discussed " water " surrounding the brain when describing congenital hydrocephalus, and Galen referred to " excremental liquid " in the ventricles of the brain, which he believed was purged into the nose.

Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.

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Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( AD 129 –), better known as Galen of Pergamon ( modern-day Bergama, Turkey ), was a prominent Roman ( of Greek ethnicity ) physician, surgeon and philosopher.

Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed greatly to the understanding of numerous scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.

The son of Aelius Nicon, a wealthy architect with scholarly interests, Galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher.

Galen conducted many nerve ligation experiments that supported the theory, which is still accepted today, that the brain controls all the motions of the muscles by means of the cranial and peripheral nervous systems.

Galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise entitled That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher.

Galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects, and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints.

Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind.

and attracted both Stoic and Platonic philosophers, to whom Galen was exposed at age 14.

His father had planned a traditional career for Galen in philosophy or politics and took care to expose him to literary and philosophical influences.

However, Galen states that in around 145 AD his father had a dream in which the god Asclepius ( Aesculapius ) appeared and commanded Nicon to send his son to study medicine.

Galen claims that the High Priest chose him over other physicians after he eviscerated an ape and challenged other physicians to repair the damage.

When they refused, Galen performed the surgery himself and in so doing won the favor of the High Priest of Asia.

Galen went to Rome in 162 AD and made his mark as a practicing physician.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

In the following spring Marcus was persuaded to release Galen after receiving a report that Asclepius was against the project.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

The boy came on to the porch and sat down, his gaze on Morgan as if half expecting him to shoot and not really caring.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.

He'd be an idiot to let them stay he thought, but he couldn't send them on, either.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

`` My dress needs some work on it ''.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

Gavin stood on the porch, a thin figure.

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

He approached the horse and laid a hand on the stallion's quivering neck.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

He rode low on the mare's neck.