A Roman doctor who also beleived in the 4 humours.
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What did the forbiddening of dissection mean Galen had to do?
He relied on dissecting animals, he wanted to use monkeys as he thought they were the closest thing to humans.
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How else did he learn about the human body?
Human corpses.
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What does Galens book show?
He had good knowldge about bone structure, he also studied the muscles, the heart and blood and the nervous system.
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What experiment helped him start thinking about the nervous system?
H conducted experiments on pigs by cutting the spinal chord in different places, he realised that this was how the nervous system took messages from the brain and to the muscles.
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Why didn't Roman knowledge of disease progress?
Even though Galen belived in the Four Humours as the cause of disease, Romans didn't continue the Greek investigations into disease and rejected any Greek ideas.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What was forbidden? (body)
Back
Dissection
Card 3
Front
Who was Galen?
Back
Card 4
Front
What did the forbiddening of dissection mean Galen had to do?
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