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150
"Windows"
Because the dissection of human bodies became illegal in Rome, Galen used his treatment of Gladiator's wounds as windows to the function of different body parts. -
162
Galen moves to Rome
Galen quickly rose in the ranks of the medical profession due to his impressive public demonstrations of anatomy, and his ability to "cure" the "incurable". -
169
"First among doctors and unique among philosophers" -Markus Aurelius
Galen quickly became one of the top medical professionals in the Roman Empire. He combined medicine with philosophy and emphasized that understanding anatomy was essential to medicine. -
180
Commodus's Physician
Became the new Emperor's (Marcus Aurelius's son Commodus) physician.
