ABSTRACT
In 130 A.D. Pergamon (as known in the Western world), a Greek town of Ro man law near the Aegean in Asia Minor, became the birthplace of somebody par ticularly unique, someone who would drastically modify the course of history. Galen (130-200 A.D.), the revered physician and surgeon, saw his first light in this city of antiquity when the only serious medical concepts originated from Hippocrates.1'9 Galen learned the important Hippocratic precepts rather swiftly and then set out to improve the prevailing system of medical principles and treatments.
