Galen mindmap
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- Created on: 16-04-16 15:37
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- Galen
- Born 129 AD, and started studying at 16
- He spent four years as a gladiator surgeon and was the personal doctor to numerous emporors
- He created the theory of opposites
- He did lots of blood letting, which Hippocrates wouldn't approve of
- He vivisected a pig in public to show that nerves control movement
- He was wrong about people's jaws, as he thought they were made of two bones, but actually, they are just one
- He told doctors to observe and examine patients and to note down symptoms carefully
- He wrote over 350 books combining Greek and his ideas which he learnt from his work in Alexandria
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