Galen of Pergamum

Introduction

Galen is known to be one of the most famous doctors and philosophers of antiquity. He was born in Pergamum in Asia Minor in 129 AD. He was attracted to medicine, dealt with many of the ideas of Hippocrates and formulated the theories of moods. To become a leader in his own field, he even visited the temple of Asclepius, to get to know the techniques of pain management.In the beginning, he was led by his father, who was also an astronomer and mathematician. His father name was Nikon; he worked on the study of philosophy. His father was a wealthy and educated man (Vivian, 1979, 281).

Discussion and analysis

Claudius Galen was born in 129 AD in the town of Pergamum, which was a Greek town, established in what is now the west seaboard area of up to date Turkey. In compare to its present, state of the wreck, while it was a significant local center of heritage and civilization. His dad was a well renowned architect and very rich. Galen privileged upbringing and his father guidance have helped him to become what he had become, especially he was considered to be a master in the field of medicine.

Galen remained almost there until the end of his life in Rome, where he worked primarily with writing and research. The last years of his life, in 200 AD he returned to Paramus. Focal point in galenical pharmacy is the definition of drug showing that Galen accepts several fluid Aristotelian distinctions between medicine and food, and unlike the Hippocratic their identification. According to Galen, as a drug means any substance not equated with the human body and acts on it by changing one or more of the primary qualities heat, wetness, coldness, dryness, which is composed, respectively, while the food is defined as any substance equated with the human body and contribute to growth. Each drug, and remains unchanged from the human body can either benefit or harm, and in the latter case is called poison.

His work

His works were originally written in Greek after Ms. translated into Latin and Arabic. He wrote almost 500 treatises on medicine, philosophy, ethics, but most perished in the fire of the Temple of Peace in Rome. Some were rescued by the Arabs and used by physicians in the 9th century.

Today, Galen of Pergamum is best renowned as the most influential health doctrines of the vintage world cumbersome, particularly the shoulder of the idea, and numerous subtle anatomical outcome, and difficulties of anatomy and physiology. Galen is antiquity's most prolific author in Greek, and his works formed the basis of medical education in the Byzantine Empire and Europe for many centuries.

Considered the founder of anatomy and founder of comparative anatomy

Medicine, for Galen, is an art, which sole purpose is to "save” man. The doctor is not doing the kind servant and imitator." According to Galen, the physician must not violate nature, but to serve. All teaching refers to the work of Hippocrates. He admits that just like ...