Galen
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Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (c. 130 – c. 200), better known as Galen, was a Greek physician and a writer on medicine and philosophy. His theories dominated European medicine for well over a millennium.
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- The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Title of a treatise; cited from Judith Perkins The Suffering Self (London: Routledge, 1995) p. 154.
- The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
- On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.
- That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes.
- On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 2, sect. 3; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 139.