Galen, Influence for Forty-Five Generations, from "The History of Medicine"

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Accession Number
UMHS.8
Title
Galen, Influence for Forty-Five Generations, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Michigan (state)
Credit Line
Collection of the University of Michigan Health System, Gift of Pfizer Inc.
Dimensions
109.86 cm x 89.54 cm (43 1/4 in. x 35 1/4 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Physical Description
Galen was a pillar of medicine; the last important pillar in the millennium of Greek domination of the medical world. Physician to emperors as well as commoners in the Roman Empire, Galen (130-220 A.D.) traveled extensively, lectured widely, wrote prolifically. The great Greek was a shrewd observer who gained much experience through experimentation. Cupping was among the forms of treatment which he advocated. Pharmacy as well as medicine benefited from his formulas, called "galenicals;" he was a leader in the health sciences of his day. Galen's teachings were accepted as dogma by both teachers and practioners of medicine for fifteen hundred years.
Primary Keywords
medicine
physicians
science
scientists
Secondary Keywords
disciplines
health sciences
people
people (agents)
people and culture
people by occupation
people in health and medicine
people in science-related occupations
science and related disciplines
scientists and people in science-related occupations
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