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Claudius Galenus
Born September 129
Pergamon, Roman Empire
Died 216
Nationality Greek
Occupation Physician
Known for Father of Anatomy and Neurology


Galen of Pergamum, (born 129 circa, Pergamum, Roman Empire—died c. 216), Greco-Roman physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century. His authority in the Byzantine world and the Muslim Middle East was similarly long-lived.

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