History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asceticism, Hippocratic Corpus, Middle Ages
1 Feb 2013
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Anyone who came after him was either ignored or somehow attributed back to galen. Uncanny ability to present himself as an expert and discount colleagues. His interpretations of hippocrates (his mentor) remained unchallenged all the way up to the 20th century. More words survived from galen than any other greek (medical) writing. However, he didn"t just write about medicine, also poetry, anatomy, dissections, and the soul. Died at age 80, but created his own legacy, and remains exemplary to this day. He also summarized the work of all those that came before him. Used medical discoveries to resolve philosophical disputes. Tripartite soul: the soul consists of 3 parts: the brain, liver, and heart, by operating on animals, he located and therefore proved that existence of the. Century that followed his death (until 350 a. d. ), there was nothing significant in terms of medical activity or discovery (or at least no records have been found).
