Galen moved easily across an interconnected Mediterranean network of cities. He was equally comfortable in his native Pergamon, Alexandria or the mother of all cities, Rome.

Galen Hall was the “finger building” of its day. Today, the row houses have been replaced by equally tall buildings, built in 1921. The brownstones only lasted another ten years. The doctors are gone, ...

IN THE 2nd century AD, Galen of Pergamon, a philosopher and surgeon in the Roman Empire, held a public demonstration in which he got a volunteer to press on the exposed brain of a live, conscious pig.

The manuscript he held contained a hidden translation of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon, a Greco-Roman physician and philosopher who died in 200 A.D. It was missing pages ...

A language scholar has united missing pages of the oldest known copy of an influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon, a Greco-Roman physician and philosopher who died in 200 A.D.

In the medieval period, medical science was still dominated by the ancient writings of Hippocrates from the fifth century and Galen of Pergamon from the second century. Research has shown that ...