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Galen must have been a celebrity during his lifetime. As a descendant of an aristocratic lineage of architects and surveyors, he was well known in Pergamum, his hometown, but he gained fame in Rome (162–6) by delivering public lectures and anatomical demonstrations before the circles of power. As a newcomer, he quickly gained access to…

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Article Galen, On Simple Drugs First of all, it is helpful to identify the boundaries that Galen explicitly draws in his medical practice. He is by no means the only physician to express disgust at certain remedies, and it may be worth asking to what extent such statements by physicians are merely rhetorical (see Santini-Scivoletto-Zurli…

Article Early mutakallimūn who are said to have been physicians themselves or had a keen interest in medical subjects were usually acquainted with non-Galenic medicine and practitioners of indigenous medical traditions. Particularly noteworthy are recurrent reports about contacts with physicians of Indian origin: (Ibn al-Nadīm, al-Fihrist (n. 4 above), vol. II/1, pp. 224, 315 f.;…

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The least investigated body of source materials dealing with the history of the Greek-speaking people prior to modern times is undoubtedly that body of historical sources which we might call Islamic. This is doubly lamentable. First, the rise of Islam and the whole course of Islamic history down to the present day have had a…