Description
- 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
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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
- Rights
- If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://www.umma.umich.edu/collections/resources.html for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
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Collection Access
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- Add to Portfolio
- In public portfolios
- Robert Thom items: 20, owner: oldoctor (*)
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Image Size
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Record
- UMHS.8
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Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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