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Hippocrates & Galen
Medicine without gods: the Hippocratic Corpus, the four humors, observation and prognosis, the oath; then Galen's anatomy from apes and gladiators, and why his authority ruled for 1,400 years.
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Prereqs: none. Next: Vesalius & Harvey; Germ theory. Sources: G.E.R. Lloyd (ed.), *Hippocratic Writings* (Penguin); Susan Mattern, *The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire* (2013).Next: 1. Hippocrates