The Complete Works of Galen, Vol. 1

In the 17th year of his life, the year 147 of the Christian era, his father was warned by a dream. Because of this, Galen was led to the physicians g) Satyrus (a disciple of Quintus), Stratonicus (a disciple of Sabinus the Hippocratic), and Aeschrion the Empiric. He found these and other teachers in his own homeland.

After the death of his parent, Galen moved to Smyrna in the 21st year of his age, in 151 AD. He went to hear h) Pelops, a very famous physician among the disciples of Quintus, and Albinus, a Platonic philosopher. Then he went to Corinth to study under Numisianus, who was not inferior to Pelops and was a student of the same Quintus. After traveling through several other provinces i), he finally reached Alexandria,

g) Galen, On Prognosis to Posthumus original: "de praenot. ad Posthum.", chapter 2, page 832, volume 8; book 9 of On the Method of Healing original: "de method. medendi", chapter 4, page 205, volume 10. He describes the teachers he had in both philosophy and medicine at length in book 1 of On Anatomical Procedures original: "de anatomic. administrat.", chapter 1, page 26, volume 4. Compare On the Order of His Own Books to Eugenianus original: "de ordine libror. suor. ad Eugenian.", page 52, volume 1; On the Power of Medicines original: "de medicament. facult.", book 11, chapters 1 and 24, page 310, volume 13; On Black Bile original: "de atra bile", chapter 4, page 170, volume 3; book 1 of On the Power of Foods original: "de alimentor. facult.", chapter 1, page 308, volume 6.

h) Galen, On the Good and Bad Juices of Foods original: "de probis pravisque alimentor. succ.", chapter 1, page 418, volume 6; On His Own Books original: "de libris propriis", chapter 2, page 38, volume 1. He reports himself that Pelops was his second teacher after Satyrus in Smyrna, and later Numisianus in Corinth, in book 1 of On Anatomical Procedures, chapter 1, page 26, volume 4. Compare On the Order of His Own Books to Eugenianus, page 51, volume 1; On Black Bile, chapter 3, page 168, volume 3.

i) Compare the accounts of the travels undertaken by Galen before he went to Alexandria and after he left that city to return to his homeland. See book 3 of On the Composition of Medicines according to Genus original: "de composit. medicament. per genera", chapter 2, pages 713 and 719, volume 13; book 6 of On the Composition of Medicines according to Place original: "de composit. medicam. sec. loc.", chapter 2, page 490, volume 13; book 5 of On Preserving Health original: "de sanitate tuenda", chapter 1, page 138, volume 6, commentary 3.