The prince of medicine : Galen in the Roman Empire /
Galen in the Roman world
Susan P. Mattern.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- xx, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, facsims. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pergamum -- Learning medicine -- The gladiators -- Rome -- Anatomy, and Boethus -- Marcus Aurelius, and the plague -- Galen and his patients -- The fire.
9780199767670 (hbk.) 0199605459 (hbk.)
2012035656
Galen.
Physicians--Rome--Biography. Physicians--Greece--Biography. Physicians--Biography. History of Medicine. History, Ancient. Roman World.