Galen of Pergam was one of the most famous doctors the Roman Empire had ever known.

Galen was not only a famous doctor, he was also said to be a philosopher.

Unlike his medical treatises, most of Galen's philosophical writings have been lost, as a result of a fire that destroyed the Temple of Peace in Rome in 191 AD.

His medical works, However, have survived, and have dominated the theory and practice of medicine not only of the Roman world, but also of the Islamic world and Medieval Europe.

Galen is believed to have been born in 130 AD Around the reign of Emperor Hadrian.

His father, a man named Nikon, is recorded as a prosperous architect and builder.

Between the two, Galen claimed to be imitating his father, rather than his mother, Galen's likeness.

(Public *** Domain), except for his father , Galen's early life was also influenced by the city of his birth, Pergamon.

In Galen's time, Pergamon was a prosperous city.

Pergam also has a library that is almost comparable to the famous Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which shows that it was a center of learning.

In addition, Pergam is famous for its statue of Askel Famous for Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing to whom Galen dedicated his life.

According to Galen, when he was 14 years old, he participated in a local Philosopher (mainly) lectured, chiefly among the "Stoics" who were disciples of Philopatus.

In addition, he also taught among the "Platonists, Gaius

However, Nikon's training "was mainly in geometry" science, arithmetic, architecture and astronomy" and looked at philosophical issues from a completely different perspective.

For example, Nikon came to this conclusion based on his own experience in science (since the Greek text has (flaws, the process before this is not clear), that is: it can be seen from Galen's writings that his father had a great influence on him and helped him shape his later outlook on life.

Nikon did as God instructed, and for the next four years Galen studied under the doctors who gathered in the sanctuary of Asclepius.

After his father's death Later, Galen began to travel, during which he also continued his medical studies.

After several years abroad, Galen returned to Pergam in 157 AD, where he Appointed physician to the city's gladiators.

Galen remained in Pergam until 162 AD, when he left Rome, either because of his own ambitions or because of the outbreak of Pergamum of civil strife.

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Anatomy, mid-15th century, (English) Claudius (Pseudo) Galen.

Since he had made powerful enemies, he decided to leave secretly in 166 AD lest he might lose his life if he stayed any longer.

Galen continued to serve in this capacity during the reigns of Caracalla and Septimius Severus.

In the field of medicine, he is said to have pil "hitherto" "all important Greek and Roman medical knowledge to date" and supplemented it with his own observations and theories.

After the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, his works were mostly forgotten in the West, while in the Byzantine Empire and the *** world , Galen's works have figured prominently in medical research.

Thanks to the preservation of this knowledge, Galen's works were able to find their way back to Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Featured Image: Galen's Pergamon (Claudius Gallens, or in French, Claude Gallin) (Paris: lithograph by Gregory and Denex, about 1865).

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