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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It was here in court that Galen wrote extensively on medical subjects.

Galen was the physician to Commodus for much of the emperor ’ s life and treated his common illnesses.

It was also known as the Plague of Galen and holds an important place in medicinal history because of its association with Galen.

It is believed that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, because though his description is incomplete, Galen gave enough information to enable a firm identification of the disease.

Galen notes that the exanthema covered the victim ’ s entire body and was usually black.

According to Galen, it was black because of a remnant of blood putrefied in a fever blister that was pustular.

Galen states that the skin rash was close to the one Thucydides described.

When Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus became ill with Quartan fever, Galen felt obliged to treat him " since he was my teacher and I happened to live nearby.

) Galen, like the Hippocratics, was not.

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.

Galen argued that monkey anatomy was close enough to humans for physicians to learn anatomy with monkey dissections and then make observations of similar structures in the wounds of their patients, rather than trying to learn anatomy only from wounds in human patients, as would be done by students trained by the Empiricist medical sect would.

During the scattered fighting near Parth Galen, Boromir was mortally wounded by orc archers while defending Merry and Pippin, redeeming himself for trying to take the Ring.

Past or present fellows of the college include the historians Sir Goronwy Edwards and Niall Ferguson, the philosopher Galen Strawson and the political philosopher John Gray.

Nebulan leader Galen Kord was willing to give the Autobots a chance to present their case, but his fellow council member, Lord Zarak, was not, and engineered events to make it appear as though Blurr had attacked the Nebulans.

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.

* Michael Servetus Research Website with a study on the Opera Omnia of Galen by the galenist Michael de Villanueva, and also the first description of the pulmonary circulation in his Manuscript of Paris in 1546.

One was an extremely free translation ( or rather a paraphrase ) of The Protreptic of Galen ( Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l ' Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes des bonnes Artz, mesmement Medicine ), and in his so-called Traité des fardemens ( basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others ) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague – none of which, not even the bloodletting, apparently worked.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

Hydrocephalus was described more clearly by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates in the 4th century BC, while a more accurate description was later given by the Roman physician Galen in the 2nd century AD.

Galen had first hand knowledge of the disease.

Galen described the four classic symptoms of inflammation ( redness, pain, heat, and swelling ) and added much to the knowledge of infectious disease and pharmacology.

Doctor Galén ( a reference to famous Roman doctor Galen ) has discovered a cure for the disease.

The information provided by Galen does not clearly define the nature of the disease, but scholars have generally preferred to diagnose it as smallpox.

The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the ancient Macedonian physician Galen ( 130 – 199 AD ), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, organs, and temperaments.

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.

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

The 7th-century poet George of Pisida went so far as to refer to Christ as a second and neglected Galen.

However, while Vesalius dared to admit he could not find these holes, he did not dream of disputing Galen on the distribution of blood, and so imagined it distilled through the unbroken partition between the ventricles.

In so doing he defended medieval tradition in general, and Galen in particular, while conceding some merit to specific points in Paracelsus.

Tyrian does so and Ulrich dies instantly, to the horror of his young apprentice Galen Bradwarden ( MacNicol ) and his elderly servant Hodge ( Sydney Bromley ).

The King returns the amulet to Galen so that he might save Elspeth.

Both men were very hot-tempered and proud ; emotions ran so high that, at one point, in anger, Van Galen lowered his command flag and trampled it with his feet.

This made Heather, the usual star, jealous, so she played basketball, with Galen, a male player also living in their apartment complex Sandy Shores.

Picard resolves that the answer to the ' puzzle ' will be revealed when the remaining DNA samples are obtained, and so the Enterprise travels to a remote, uninhabited planet that Galen had mentioned was his next destination.

He had become famous and popular, so after the pope had placed the red hat on his head with the words: ' God bless you, God bless Germany ,' Saint Peter's basilica for minutes thundered in a " triumphant applause " for von Galen.

Zaius doesn't trust General Urko to follow his orders and bring back any surviving humans, so he sends along his newly hired chimpanzee assistant, Galen ( Roddy McDowall, who played Cornelius and Caesar in most of the film versions ).

Heatons are another Irish department store with 57 stores nationwide, and Brown Thomas though much smaller, is very long established and well known, and probably represents the very upper-end of the clothes retail market ( but bought by Galen & Hilary Weston in 1971 so now part of a larger UK / Canadian concern ).

There are many elements of the work that are extremely similar, especially the characters: Tuck bears a strong resemblance to Frodo Baggins, and even has a variant on Frodo's fake last name and his final wound, while Galen resembles Aragorn, Gildor resembles Legolas, Rael resembles Galadriel, and so on.