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http://www.greekmedicine.net/whos_who/Galen.html

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/769263_8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galen.shtml

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Galen was a medical philosopher and contributed

to medicine by using his skills to attract attention

from the influential and elite people of this time.

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Born: 130 AD (Pergamon)

Death: 200 AD(Rome)

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Claudius Galen was a Greek physician who went to Rome and revived the ideas of Hippocrates and other Greek doctors. The Romans had shown little interest in the work of Hippocrates and it took Galen to push it forward in Rome.

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Because it had became illegal to dissect humans, Galen began to dissect animals such as pigs. He did studies on the nerves of the animal, along with many other intricate studies

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Galen gained practical experience at a gladiators school.

These gladiators suffered stab wounds, broken bones,

and other major injuries. This was the ideal place for young Galen to gain experience.

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Galen concluded that mental activity came from the brain, and not from the heart.

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Galen's most known book,

"On the Natural Faculties",

is about his views on

medicine at the time.

This book is full of theories

by Galen about how

the body works.

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Before Galen's discoveries, people

thought that air ran through their veins.

Galen found out that it was blood, not air, running through their veins.