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Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
- No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (27% in)
- No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (27% in)
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