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Method of Medicine, Volume II: Books 5-9

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Antiquity’s most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.

Galen of Pergamum (129–199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized the entirety of Greek medicine as a basis for his own doctrines and practice, which comprehensive...