Gladiator doctors like Ravi in Gladiator II were not uncommon in Ancient Rome. Claudius Galen is probably the most famous example of an ancient physician who provided medical aid to gladiators ...

(this story originally appeared in Synapse) by Yu Xie The Greek physician Claudius Galen (A.D. 131-200) was an important contributor to the science of anatomy. He was one of the first to accurately ...

Another influential beard, sorry [coughs] physician, was Claudius Galen. Galen lived in Rome and made many major breakthroughs in anatomy… which is basically, the study of the inner workings of ...

In the second century A.D., physician and philosopher Claudius Galen held that the brain was a gland that secreted fluids to the body via the nerves—a view that went unchallenged for centuries.

I refer to Sue Armstrong’s excellent article “. A pill to rewind time” (Life & Arts, May 11), where reference is made to “the Roman physician Claudius Galen in the 2nd century AD”. It is ...