蜜芽传媒

Galen lived in Rome, 500 years after the Hippocratic doctors. By treating the Emperor, he became one of the most famous doctors in Rome. He carried out a public dissection of a pig to prove that Greek medicine was wrong to think the heart controlled the body. His theory of the body as a system dominated medicine for 1,400 years. However, he was held back by religious beliefs that said dissection was wrong. Instead, he went to gladiator school where he was able to study wounds and also searched for broken tombs.