Formation of Galenic Medicine

Name: Formation of Galenic Medicine
Start: 101
End: 200

Type Event Region Roman Empire Time 101–200

In the 2nd century CE the Roman physician Galen practiced, dissected, and wrote in Pergamon and Rome, synthesizing Hippocratic humoral theory, Plato'…

Timeline

129–162Pergamon · Roman EmpireGalen served as physician to gladiators at Pergamon, accumulating anatomical knowledge through animal dissection and integrating humoral theory with philosophical traditions to begin constructing a systematic medical framework.
162–216Rome · Roman EmpireGalen moved to Rome, became court physician, and wrote extensively on medicine and philosophy, systematically expounding anatomy, physiology, pathology, and therapeutics; the Galenic system matured and spread widely.

Sources

On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body — Galen (170)
Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance — Jon Arrizabalaga (1998)