Ancient Rome : surgery and anatomy

Galen: Wrote 60 books!

• He trained at Alexandria and lived near a temple where he gained knowledge about the body.
• He knew the anatomy of the human body well, through wounds he was able to learn about it.
• He later knew how to put guts back into the body.
• Galen got money from his books to buy pigs which he could disect and look into. He did not do this on humans. 
• He used criminals as guinea pigs to open up and look into.
• Mistakes were made because animals anatomy is very different to a humans.
• He didnt record his ideas as he was biased and thought he was right.
• He learnt from others, especially Hipocrates.
• Galen did demonstrations infront of large crowds to prove he was correct and become more popular. He proved how to paralyse a pig,…