Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm, as first advanced by the …

Even though humorism theory had several models that used two, three, and five components, the most famous model consists of the four humors described by Hippocrates and developed …

On Semen (De Semine), also known as On the Seed (Peri spermatos) is a medical treatise written by the Greek physician Galen. In this work, Galen writes about the physiology of animal …

The Galenic corpus is the collection of writings of Galen, a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire during the second century CE.

Dr. Galen Hallick, MD, is an Internal Medicine specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD with 45 years of experience. This provider currently accepts 10 insurance plans including Medicaid. New …

The medical traditions of Galen, and thereby Hippocrates, had dominated Islamic medicine from its beginnings. Avicenna sought to fit these traditions into Aristotle 's natural philosophy. [3] He …

Vesalius' pamphlet generally supported Galen's view but with qualifications that rejected the infiltration of Galen. In Bologna, Vesalius discovered that all of Galen's research was restricted …

Learned medicine is the European medical tradition in the Early Modern period, when it experienced the tension between the texts derived from ancient Greek medicine, particularly …