✍ Scribed by Cone, Earl H.
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Galen is sometimes said to have kept a pharmacy in the Via d'acra at Rome, but his "apotheca" there appears to have been a house where his writings were kept and where othe7 physicians came to consult them.
He aimed to create a perfect system of physiology, pathology and treatment. He is alleged to have written 500 treatises on medicine and 2 5 0 on other subjects, as grammar, law, philosophy, alchemy, etc. All his writings, originally in Greek, have been translated by different persons into Latin; the most important and wellknown volumes being those on anatomy, physiology, hygiene, physic and surgery, materia medica and pharmacy, philosophy, and miscellaneous subjects. In some of these foregoing volumes, there may be found descriptions of numerous foods and drugs used to-day, as oats, wheat, barley, rice, beans, flaxseed, hempseed and the poppy seed. Considering that the microscope, chemistry, and other sciences were not yet known, we wonder how Galen was capable of obtaining the information that one can obtain from his writings. He is acclaimed as the first one to describe the nervous system and to tell in detail all about circulation.
He probably died in the year 2 0 0 or 2 0 1 , either in Pergamus or Palestine.
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