Both Uses
Galen
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
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- This is the lawn of Parth Galen: a fair place in the summer days of old.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- He came to the edge of the lawn of Parth Galen by the shore, where the boats were drawn up out of the water.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(Galen of ancient Greece) Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)Since dissection of the human body was illegal in the Rome of Galen's time, he developed much of his understanding of anatomy by dissecting animals and by serving as a physician in a gladiator school.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)