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The 47 pages that link to Galen, each with the reason it gives.

• AnatomyRelated: His animal-based anatomical accounts strongly influenced later understandings of the human body.

• Andreas VesaliusCompared with: Vesalius tested Galen’s authority against human bodies and corrected claims drawn from animal anatomy.

• HippocratesRelated: Galen helped transmit and interpret the Hippocratic tradition long after Hippocrates’s lifetime.

• Marcus AureliusRelated: His medical service documents illness and court life during Marcus’s reign.

• William HarveyCompared with: Harvey’s circulation theory contradicted Galenic accounts of blood production and movement.

• History of medicineRelated: His synthesis of anatomy and physiology became a central authority in later medicine.

• Hippocratic CorpusRelated: His commentaries helped preserve and organize Hippocratic writings for later readers.

• Ancient Greek medicineRelated: Galen systematized and expanded Greek medical ideas, especially humoral physiology.

• Human anatomyRelated: His animal-based anatomical accounts dominated later study despite limits in human evidence.

• Humoral theoryRelated: Galen elaborated humoral physiology and transmitted it to later medical traditions.

• Hunayn ibn IshaqRelated: Hunayn translated and organized a large body of Galen’s writings.

• ParacelsusCompared with: Paracelsus rejected Galenic doctrines that he considered inherited speculation rather than reliable medical knowledge.

• Hippocratic medicineRelated: Galen interpreted and systematized Hippocratic writings for later medical traditions.

• HumorismRelated: His synthesis made humoral explanations authoritative across later medical traditions.

• Gerard of CremonaRelated: Gerard translated Arabic versions of Galenic works, extending their influence in Latin medicine.

• Graeco-Arabic translation movementRelated: His medical corpus formed one of the movement’s largest and most influential bodies of translated work.

• Materia medicaRelated: His theories of qualities and compound remedies influenced how substances were understood.

• Medieval medicineRelated: Medieval physicians inherited many of their core medical authorities through Galen.

• The Canon of MedicineRelated: Avicenna integrated and revised Galenic medicine throughout the work.

• ChrysippusRelated: His polemics preserve fragments and critiques of Chrysippus’s views on the soul and body.

• Miasma theoryRelated: His medical system transmitted classical environmental and bodily explanations into later practice.

• Pedanius DioscoridesCompared with: Galen’s later pharmacology developed a broader theoretical account of drugs and their effects.

• Aristotle's biologyCompared with: His anatomy relied more heavily on dissection and medical practice than Aristotle’s animal comparisons.

• De humani corporis fabricaCompared with: Vesalius tested claims inherited from Galen against human bodies.

• History of surgeryRelated: Galenic ideas constrained anatomical knowledge and surgical practice well into the early modern period.

• Anatomical dissectionRelated: His anatomy relied largely on animal dissection, shaping later beliefs about human bodies.

• Antonine PlagueRelated: His account provides the most substantial surviving contemporary description of the epidemic.

• François RabelaisRelated: Rabelais’s medical career belonged to a tradition still deeply formed by Galenic authority.

• History of biologyBroader topic: His synthesis transmitted ancient biological knowledge into medieval and early modern medicine.

• Julia DomnaRelated: His presence in the Severan court’s world helps evoke the period’s learned culture.

• Ambroise ParéCompared with: Paré’s practice sometimes departed from Galenic doctrines that dominated learned medicine.

• History of anatomyRelated: His authority transmitted ancient anatomy while preserving errors from animal-to-human inference.

• Ibn al-NafisRelated: His account of cardiac septal pores was a central target of Ibn al-Nafis’s criticism.

• Unani medicineRelated: Galenic theories became a major foundation for Unani humoral medicine.

• Medicine in the medieval Islamic worldRelated: Arabic translations made his extensive medical system foundational across the Islamic world.

• Gabriele FalloppioCompared with: Falloppio’s observations helped test anatomical claims inherited from Galenic texts.

• Guy de ChauliacRelated: Chauliac relied extensively on Galenic authorities in explaining anatomy and treatment.

• HarpastumRelated: He praised ball games as exercise and discussed harpastum among forms of play.

• History of pharmacyRelated: Preparations associated with his methods helped define pharmacy's early compounding tradition.

• Abu Bakr al-RaziRelated: Al-Razi learned from Galenic medicine while also criticizing some of its claims.

• Academy of GondishapurRelated: Galenic writings formed part of the medical learning transmitted in Syriac and later Arabic.

• Female hysteriaRelated: Galen transmitted and revised ancient explanations of uterine illness, including ideas about retained reproductive fluids.

• History of cancerRelated: His writings extended humoral explanations of cancer well beyond antiquity.

• History of neuroscienceRelated: His theories of nerves and brain function dominated discussion long after his animal dissections.

• History of pathologyRelated: His anatomical and physiological ideas framed disease accounts long before systematic postmortem study.

• History of reproductionRelated: His anatomy and physiology influenced historical understandings of reproductive bodies.

• Pamphile of EpidaurusRelated: Galen names Pamphile among writers whose works he consulted.