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THE LIFE OF GALEN a).

Claudius Galen, the foremost of all physicians after Hippocrates, and the leader of a system in medi-

a) Those who wish to be engaged in correctly writing the life of Galen ought to use the books of the author himself as the most genuine sources. He told and explained many things about himself in a great many of the books he wrote. These are found especially in The Art of Medicine, in chapter 39 of which he reviews the books he wrote before that work. He also provides details in the nine books of Anatomical Procedures; in the seventeen books On the Usefulness of the Parts; in the book That the Mental Faculties Follow the Temperaments of the Body; and in the book On the Recognition and Cure of the Diseases of the Mind, which the Latins call "disturbances" Galen refers here to the passions or emotional states that affect health..

Other sources include the book On the Diagnosis and Cure of the Errors of Each Person's Mind and the six books On the Affected Parts, in which many things are related regarding Galen's life as a practicing physician. He also wrote On Prognosis, addressed to Epigenes, specifically to give an account of his medical life to posterity. Additional details appear in the two books On Antidotes, the book On Theriac, addressed to Piso Theriac was a famous ancient herbal compound used as a universal antidote., and the books On the Composition of Medicines.

In the work Advice given to an Epileptic Boy, certain events from his life also occur. Galen had even written a book On Slander, in which he also wrote about his own life original: "περὶ τῆς διαβολῆς, ἐν ᾧ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἰδίου βίου", which he mentions in chapter 13 of On His Own Books, though this work is now lost. Another lost book, mentioned in that same chapter, was titled How Much One Ought to Care for Honor and Reputation Among the Masses original: "μέχρι πόσου τῆς παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς τιμῆς καὶ δόξης φροντιστέον ἐστὶ", which contained some biographical information.

Many things pertaining to Galen's life are also read in his books On His Own Books and On the Order of His Own Books, addressed to Eugenianus original: "περὶ τῶν ἰδίων βιβλίων" and "περὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν ἰδίων βιβλίων πρὸς Εὐγενιανὸν". Both of these books are found in the first volume of the Charterian edition A massive 17th-century edition of Galen and Hippocrates by René Chartier. of the works of Hippocrates and Galen, on pages 35 and 49. Among the Greek authors, Stephanus of Byzantium original: "Stephanus de urbibus", John Tzetzes in the twelfth book of his Histories Also known as the Chiliades., and the Suda An influential 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia. also mentioned Galen.