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And this is another Greek physician,
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who lived however in ancient Rome, and that is Galen.
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And that's a picture.
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Now, his personal--he lived in the second century A.D.,
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from 130 to about 201,
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with his formative years being lived out in Rome.
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His personal qualities are important.
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He was very different from Hippocrates.
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Hippocrates was a great observer, an empiricist.
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Galen instead prided himself above all
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on his knowledge of the texts of Hippocrates.
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He almost worshipped Hippocrates, but regarded himself as