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... Galen represents at least five - sixths of all the medical writings surviving from antiquity . Most of the ancient medical writers after Galen do little but repeat him . His works occupy twenty - two thick octavo volumes in the standard ...
... Galen represents at least five - sixths of all the medical writings surviving from antiquity . Most of the ancient medical writers after Galen do little but repeat him . His works occupy twenty - two thick octavo volumes in the standard ...
Page 113
... Galen's medical edu- cation began in A.D. 146. He never saw a human dissection . I know no evidence that any of his teachers had done so . In Galen's study years there did , however , linger a tradition of practical anatomy . Galen knew ...
... Galen's medical edu- cation began in A.D. 146. He never saw a human dissection . I know no evidence that any of his teachers had done so . In Galen's study years there did , however , linger a tradition of practical anatomy . Galen knew ...
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... Galen's anatomical terms , but there is one on which perhaps it is well to warn the reader , for it is very misleading . It is sometimes said that Galen failed to distin- guish nerves from tendons . This is not the case , but he did ...
... Galen's anatomical terms , but there is one on which perhaps it is well to warn the reader , for it is very misleading . It is sometimes said that Galen failed to distin- guish nerves from tendons . This is not the case , but he did ...
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