In the medieval Latin Mirror of Fools (Speculum stultorum), the donkey Burnel, seeking a longer tail, consults doctor Galen. Foolish men behave similarly. … Read the post Mirror of Fools: the eminent doctor Galen on short tails and penises
In addition to his prodigious corpus of scholarly work, Galen was a physician engaged with living bodies in anatomical displays and patient care. … Read the post Galen engaged in anatomical displays and patient care
Seeing Jerome in the persona of Origen obscures Jerome and Galen’s common position in Greek and Latin, Christian and non-Christian knowledge competition. … Read the post beyond Origen: Jerome, spiritual doctor in Galen’s persona
Close study of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest could lead to better insight into the relation of linguistic translation and material substitution. … Read the post translations and substitutions in ancient medicine
Galen used a classical Aesop fable about a Hermes statue to connect material to soul and mock Posidippus’s epigram about a statue of Philitas of Cos. … Read the post Galen analogized godly man to Hermes herm
Ancient lists of substitutes among materia medica didn’t systematically consider logical relations among the substitutes. … Read the post logic of substitutes in ancient materia medica
The celebrated physician Galen took lovesickness seriously and perhaps even recognized death for a day from lovesickness. … Read the post lovesickness unto death, for a day or forever
Pliny and Galen put love elegy into prose: Pliny, to model the behavior of an ideal wife; Galen, to dismiss it and offer a healthier prescription. … Read the post Pliny and Galen respond to love elegy
Providing respectable testimony to the relation of Jesus and Galen may have been a motivation for writing Hunayn’s autobiographical epistle. … Read the post Hanayn ibn Ishaq: disciple of Jesus and Galen
Ancient arguments over the creation of the heavens and the earth set the pattern for ancient arguments about the origin of medicine. … Read the post ancient arguments about the origin of medicine