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The change to film came with renovations that transformed the lobby and covered up much of John Galen Howard's original Beaux-Arts architecture.
At its height, West Coast investments covered over 50 companies, and Hunter was touted as a possible bidder for Selfridges-he lost out to Galen Weston.

Galen and
Galen was the physician to Commodus for much of the emperor s life and treated his common illnesses.
Galen describes symptoms of the alimentary tract via a patient s diarrhea and stools.
Garcia-Ballester says the following of Galen s use of prognosis: " In modern medicine, we are used to distinguishing between the diagnostic judgment ( the scientific knowledge of what a patient has ) and the prognostic judgment ( the conjecture about what will happen to him.
Galen was concerned to distinguish it from divination or prophecy, both to improve diagnosis technically and to enhance the physician s reputation.
Galen s principal interest was in human anatomy, but Roman law had prohibited the dissection of human cadavers since about 150 BC.
Among Galen s major contributions to medicine was his work on the circulatory system.
Of particular note are procedures that Galen performed on patients brains and eyes.
A part of the Alexandrian compendium of Galen s work, this 10th century manuscript comprises two parts that include details regarding various types of fevers ( Humyat ) and different inflammatory conditions of the body.
This Greek manuscript of Galen s treatise on the pulse is interleaved with a Latin translation.
Shock and Awe: The Performance Dimension of Galen s Anatomy Demonstrations.
The theoretical explanations are mainly based on Galen s gynecological theory.
After Alcmaeon s findings, many scientists, philosophers, and physicians from around the world continued to contribute to the understanding of neuroanatomy, notably: Galen, Herophilus, Rhazes and Erasistratus.
In addition to being one of the country s leading bakers through wholly owned subsidiary Weston Foods, Galen Weston is also an experienced supermarket retailer who maintains controlling interest in Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada s largest food retailer, through a family holding company.
Growing up, Galen Weston worked in the stores that comprised his father s retail holdings.
In 1971, Galen Weston was asked by Garfield Weston, Chairman of George Weston Limited, to take a look at Loblaws, the company s Ontario-based supermarket chain, which appeared headed for bankruptcy.
Galen Weston next hired designer Don Watt to remodel one of the chain s Toronto outlets on a budget of only $ 30, 000.
Within the first few years of Galen Weston s chairmanship, $ 300 million of non-core assets were divested.
While Galen Weston expressed personal support for free trade with the United States, the signing of an agreement in 1988 resulted in another re-evaluation of his company s asset mix.
In 1989, Galen and Hilary Weston broke ground on ‘ Windsor ’, a private residential development on Florida s east coast.
W. Galen Weston noted the sale of the American assets represented the company s biggest deal ever and that these transactions left Weston and Loblaw with a combined $ 5 billion in cash to for future acquisitions.
In 2000, Galen acquired the Warner Chilcott US pharmaceutical company which is focused on women s healthcare, and simultaneously listed its ADRs on NASDAQ.
The questions were taken from Galen s “ Art of Physic ,” and the answers were based on “ Summaria Alexandrinorum .” For instance, Hunayn answers what the four elements and four humors are and also explains that medicine is divided into therapy and practice.
He translated a countless number of Galen s works including “ On Sects ” and “ On Anatomy of the Veins and Arteries .”

Galen and s
*" Kitab ila Aglooqan fi Shifa al Amraz " – This Arabic translation, related to Galen s Commentary, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, is extant in the Library of Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences.

Galen and entire
Galen ( 121 – 200 AD ) was the first to advocate the use of the surgical instrument known as the snare, a practice that was to become common until Aetius ( 490 AD ) recommended partial removal of the tonsil, writing " Those who extirpate the entire tonsil remove, at the same time, structures that are perfectly healthy, and, in this way, give rise to serious Hæmorrhage ".

Galen and body
Since Galen states that he is using observations of monkeys ( human dissection was prohibited ) to give an account of what the body looks like, Vesalius could portray himself as using Galen's approach of description of direct observation to create a record of the exact details of the human body, since he worked in a time when human dissection was allowed.
Another convincing case where understanding of the body was extended beyond where Galen had left it came from these demonstrations of the nature of human circulation and the subsequent work of Andrea Cesalpino, Fabricio of Acquapendente and William Harvey.
Galen ( 1st and 2nd centuries AD ) wrote about the large number of parts of the body and their relationships, which observation was cited as evidence for creation.
The critical thinking of Aristotle and his emphasis on the relationship between structure and function marked the beginning of physiology in Ancient Greece, while Claudius Galenus ( c. 126-199 A. D .), known as Galen, was the first to use experiments to probe the function of the body.
At around the same time, the findings of Vesalius corrected the previous anatomical teachings of Galen, which were based upon the dissection of animals even though they were supposed to be a guide to the human body.
Four years later one of his main detractors published an article that claimed that the human body itself had changed since Galen had studied it.
* Roman anatomist Galen thought the liver was the principle organ of the body.
He treated the writings of Galen as if they were sacred, if a corpse showed structures different from those described by Galen, the error was not in the texts, but in the corpse, or the structure of the human body that had changed over the centuries.
While Galen thought that humors were formed in the body, rather than ingested, he believed that different foods had varying potential to be acted upon by the body to produce different humors.
In medieval and early modern medicine, the medicinal leech ( Hirudo medicinalis and its congeners Hirudo verbana, Hirudo troctina, and Hirudo orientalis ) was used to remove blood from a patient as part of a process to " balance " the " humors " that, according to Galen, must be kept in balance for the human body to function properly.
Undergoing a cybernetic enhancement process, the Nebulons were outfitted with exo-suits that allowed them to transform into the Autobots ' very heads in a merging of both body and mind ; Galen himself became the head of Fortress Maximus.
It was this body that Galen now formed the head of.
A rockslide killed Galen in the human's place and Fortress Maximus was rendered immobile until Spike Witwicky, the human Galen had saved, was given Galen's helmet, giving him control over Maximus's body.
While the previous Skillmaster believed that the Skill should be taught while the student is relaxed and loosely focused, Galen claims that the Skill can only be learned through absolute control over one's body and mind, and he uses physical punishment to train his students.
First of all, at the time, European standards of medical practice were based on the ideas and concepts of Galen, where disease was caused by imbalances in the body ; this was the standard to which all doctors practicing medicine in the colonies were trained.

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