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A biography of the ancient physician Galen by Susan P. Mattern, set in the Roman Empire. Library catalogs file it under the history of medicine and the history of the ancient Roman world.
Andrew Huberman called it wonderful for anyone curious about how medicine was learned in an era he described as truly barbaric.
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Wonderful book, by the way, folks, is "The Prince of Medicine" about Galen, if you ever want to learn about how we learned about medicine back when it was truly barbaric.
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