Galen, Claudius

Galen, Claudius. On the Natural Faculties, trans. Arthur John Brock (London Heinemann, 1947). 

Galen, Claudius. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, trans. Margaret Tallmadge May, 2 vols. (Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1968). 

Galen, Claudius. Opera omnia, ed. C. G. Kuhn, 20 vols. (Leipzig Cnobloch, 1821-1833). 

Galen, Claudius. Selected Works, trans. P. N. Singer (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1997). 

Claudius Galen (AD 129-200) first attempted to consider the theoretical background of pharmacology. Both theory and practical experience were to contribute equally to the rational use of medicines through interpretation of the observed and the experienced results ... 

Another prominent physician whose work was to influence the course of medical science for the next fifteen centuries was Claudius Galen (A.D. 130-200). Bom in Pergamum, a country located in modem-day Turkey, Galen was the son of a wealthy and ambitious landowner who dreamed one night that his son would become the most famous physician in the world. The lavish praise and attention bestowed upon him by his father made Galen an insufferable egotist. "Whoever seeks fame need only become familiar with all that I have achieved," he once told his pupils. 

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