Diogenes compared them to fig-trees growing over precipices; for their fruit was devoured by daws and crows, not by men. - Galen
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Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (129–c. 200/c. 216), better known as Galen, was a Greek physician and a writer on medicine and philosophy. His theories dominated European medicine for well over a millennium. Galen was the first physician/physiologist to ever announce that blood moves.
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Claudius Galenus
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Aelius Galenus
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Galen of Pergamon
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