ABSTRACT
Galen flourished from A.d. 130 to A.d. 200, and with him Hippocratic medicine was restored ; nay, he even made it shine as it never had before. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that through him medicine acquired a new dress rather than was enriched, and the dogmas of Hippocrates really lost force and purity in the hands of Galen, although assuming a more attractive and perhaps a more systematic character.
