Mapping the Body || Galen

Outline

  • Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • Who was Galen?
  • Reading Guide for Galen, "On the Usefulness of the Parts" [excerpt]
  • Galen on the Function of the Veins, Lungs, Arteries and Heart(s)

    VISUALS
    1. modern medical symbols [asclepius sculpture from the Borghese Gardens]
    2. Hippocrates and the 4 humors
    3. acupuncture from China
    4. Galen (one imaginary rendering)
    5. spring and bath at Pergamum, Turkey
    6. Library of Asclepius, Pergamum, Turkey
    7. map
      life as a gladiator surgeon
      Rome under Marcus Aurelius
    8. Galen shown leading a pig dissection [1586 ed. of works, NIH Library]
    9. "Barbary apes" (macaques)
    10. Galen's four temperaments
    11. portal vein [Gray's Anatomy @ Bartleby's]
    12. da Vinci drawing of torso [Royal Library, Windsor Castle, in Mathe 1978]

    13. fresh pig heart
    14. idealized and preserved sheep heart
    15. Galen's view of arteries and veins of the heart [D. Allchin]
    16. da Vinci's drawing of the textured interior of the heart [Royal Library, Windsor Castle, in Mathe 1978]
    17. heart valve
    18. da Vinci's drawing of valve structures [Royal Library, Windsor Castle, in Mathe 1978]
    19. Galen and the heart
    20. da Vinci's anatomical drawing of the torso, showing influence of Galen [Royal Library, Windsor Castle, in Mathe 1978]

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