Who was Galen?

He was an anatomist, physiologist and theoretical physician of all time during 129- c 199. He was born in Perganum and studied in Smyrna and Alexandria and was appointed surgeon of gladiators in Perganun. He discovered that arteries contain blood and not air as had been taught upto his time. He wrote more than 400 books throughout the middle ages on medical theory.

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