# Galen

- id: galen
- name in original script: Γαληνός
- dates: c. 129–216
- roles: author

Physician of Pergamon who wrote most of his vast corpus in Rome as doctor to emperors. Medieval medicine in Syriac, Arabic and Latin is, to a first approximation, commentary on him.

## Works in the atlas

- On Simple Drugs (on-simple-drugs)

## Sources

- Pormann, Peter E. and Savage-Smith, Emilie (2007). Medieval Islamic Medicine.