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Galen of Pergamum
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The not-so-Hollywood history of the gladiator
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Galen of Pergamum
Galen of Pergamum, undated lithograph.
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine (Image ID: 192922)
Galen and Hippocrates
Galen of Pergamum, left, with Hippocrates on the title page of Lipsiae (1677),...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
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