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#Galen of Pergamon & The Humoral Doctrine

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Galen of Pergamon & The Humoral Doctrine: Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile, and 1,400 Years of Medical Authority

An analysis of the physician to Roman emperors born in Bergama (Pergamon): the four humors, animal vivisection, and the dogma that ruled European medicine for over fourteen centuries.

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