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Engraving of Claudius Galen (131-201AD)
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PC1, Box 30, Folder 4
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[1881] (Creation)
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1 engraving : b&w ; 31 x 21 cm
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Part of the Kellogg Library Photograph Collection.
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File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a bust of Claudius Galen. Inscription:
P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit.
GALEN
A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and
the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been
author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage].
Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.)
Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.
P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit.
GALEN
A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and
the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been
author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage].
Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.)
Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.
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Photograph has damage to engraving which affects legibility of inscription.
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