Galen binds medicine to observation — and authority
Galen of Pergamon dissected, experimented and wrote so prolifically that his corpus defined medicine in Europe and the Islamic world for 1,400 years.
Why it matters
Galen showed the power of systematic observation — and the cost of treating any corpus as final. Debunking Galen was the rite of passage for Vesalius and Harvey, and for experimental medicine itself.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica — Galen