Idolizing but Still Scientifically Arguing
Galen idolized Hippocrates, whose words, he declared, were “the voice of a god.” He said that Hippocrates had never written anything untrue and bemoaned the fact that physicians in his own time could
Galen idolized Hippocrates, whose words, he declared, were “the voice of a god.” He said that Hippocrates had never written anything untrue and bemoaned the fact that physicians in his own time could
Galen agreed with Aristotle that nothing should be recognized except that which can be experienced through the senses. In his treatise On Medical Experience, which he composed when he was only twenty years
The Babylonians believed that the heart was the place where the mental activity is generated. Therefore, the diseases that nowadays we consider to be cerebral or nervous were imputed to this organ. Some