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Galen of Pergamon

Lithograph of Galen (AD 129-c200/c216) of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama, Turkey). Galen was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon, and philosopher of Greek ethnicity. Lithograph (c1865) by Grégoire & Deneux, Paris, of portrait by French artist Pierre Roche Vigneron (1789-1872). (Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.)