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Galen of Pergamon (129–216 CE) was a Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher whose work dominated Western medicine for over a millennium. He synthesized Hippocratic humoral theory with Aristotelian logic and Platonic tripartite psychology, producing a vast corpus that integrated empirical observation with teleological reasoning. His philosophical contributions centered on the unity of medicine and philosophy, the soul's faculties, and the purposive design of the body.

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On the Natural Faculties
On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body
On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato
On the Therapeutic Method
On Anatomical Procedures
On the Soul's Faculties

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