1st-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher

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Galen, standing in a glade, looks at a human skeleton on the ground. Engraving by H.F. Rose, 1820.

An allegorical figure holding torches seated on a baroque monument; the symbols of the four evangelists above her, and Saint Thomas Aquinas and Galen at her side. Engraving by Jacob Bruynel after A. van Diepenbeeck, 1666.

Galen. Line engraving.

Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam / ... Edente authoris filio, Francisco Mercurio van Helmont, cum ejus praefatione ex Belgico translata.

The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

Galen. Line engraving by G. P. Busch.

Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri quindecim. Quorum principia sunt ab auctoritate medicorum & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata ... / [Santorio Santorio].

Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.

Above, a man studying the entrails of a cadaver as the microcosm, with the macrocosm behind; below, Hippocrates, holding the staff of Aesculapius, and Galen; bottom, instruments for anatomy and surgery. Engraving by A. Santvoort, ca. 1650.

A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.

Les œuvres anatomiques ... / [Jean Riolan].

Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.

Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Naturalistic psychology in Galen and stoicism / Christopher Gill.

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa / Vido Vidio ... interprete, cum nonnullis ejusdem Vidii commentariis.

Operum impressio novissima / [Galen].

Miniaturen der lateinischen Galenos-Handschrift der Kgl. Oeffentl. Bibliothek in Dresden, Db 92-93, in phototypischer Reproduktion / Einleitung und Beschreibung von E.C. van Leersum und W. Martin.

[Galenou A[-E]. Galeni librorum pars 1[-5] / [Galen].

Ioannis Caii britanni De medendi methodo libri duo, ex Cl. Galeni Pergameni, et Jo. Baptistae Montani Veronenis, principum medicorum, sententia. Opus utile, & jam primum natum.

Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.

De atra bile, liber. De tumoribus praeter naturam, liber / Guinterio Joanne Andernaco interprete.

Galeni in Aphorismos Hippocratis / ab ipso Nicolao Leoniceno Vicentino interprete, diligentius emendati, et recogniti, simulatque caeteri sequentes. Ars parva. Therapeutica ad Glauconem. De potentiis naturalibus. Quaestio de virtute formativa. De crisibus. De inaequali intemperatura.

Minvs cognitarvm stirpivm aliqvot, ac etiam rariorvm nostro coelo orientivm [ekphrasis] Qua non paucae ab antiquioribus, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Plinio, Galeno, alijsqúe memoratae declarantur, officinarum vsui perquam vtiles / Fabio Colvmna avctore. Item, de aquatilibus, aliisque animalibus quibusdam paucis libellus.

Toutes les oeuvres charitables. Sçavoir le medecin charitable. Le prix & valeur des medicamens. L'apothicaire charitable. La maniere d'embaumer les corps morts. Les tromperies du bezoard descouvertes. Le choix des medicamens. Le traité du sené. La maniere de faire toutes sortes de gelées. La maniere de faire diverses confitures. Le discours de la peste le Traité de la saignée [of Galen], Et la Methode agreable & facile pour se purger doucement, & sans aucun dégoust / [Philbert Guybert].

Centuria problematum medicorum therapeutika, in qua gravissimorum affectuum cognitio et curatio juxta principia Hippocratica, Galenica et Spagyrica pulchre deducitur ... partim in illustri Witeberga anno MDCVIII partim in inclyta Giessa anno subsequenti publice disputandi causa proposita ... / [Gregor Horst].

De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus. Quo admirandae ac prorsus divinae hujus peruanae stirpis facultates et usus explicantur / [Giles Everard].

De compositione pharmacorum localium libri decem / Iano Cornario medico interprete. Nunc ad fidem variorum exemplarium perspecti & eorum recentissima collatione ab innumeris mendis emendati.

Galeni Omnia quae extant opera ...

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De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus. Quo admirandae ac prorsus divinae hujus peruanae stirpis facultates et usus explicantur / [Giles Everard].

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

De compositione pharmacorum localium libri decem / Iano Cornario medico interprete. Nunc ad fidem variorum exemplarium perspecti & eorum recentissima collatione ab innumeris mendis emendati.

Galeni Omnia quae extant opera ...

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Galen

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De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus. Quo admirandae ac prorsus divinae hujus peruanae stirpis facultates et usus explicantur / [Giles Everard].

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

De compositione pharmacorum localium libri decem / Iano Cornario medico interprete. Nunc ad fidem variorum exemplarium perspecti & eorum recentissima collatione ab innumeris mendis emendati.

Galeni Omnia quae extant opera ...

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