Galen
(131~201 AD)
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A person of the Roman era.
He emphasized anatomy as the foundation of medicine.
By this time, dissection of the human body was no longer permitted, so he dissected monkeys and pigs to study the structure and physiological functions of animal bodies.
He introduced the method of experimental proof into Greek medicine.
The theories of Galen, who systematized Greek medicine, were not overturned until the rise of the Renaissance in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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