
Galen: 1,500 years of dominance of Medicine
If you study the history of medicine, it’s impossible not to be fascinated by the influence and authority of Galen and the length of his
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If you study the history of medicine, it’s impossible not to be fascinated by the influence and authority of Galen and the length of his

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