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Triste est omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque

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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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Native Name: Claudius Galenus

Alternative Names: Aelius Galenus • Galen of Pergamon

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That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes.

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