Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine

Jeanne Bendick

152 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
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We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, his botanical wisdom and studies of physiology were recorde...

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