CLAUDIUS, in Latin Galenus, prince of the Greek physicians after Hippocrates, was born at Pergamus in the lefter Asia, about the year 131. His father was possessed of a considerable fortune; was well versed in polite literature, philosophy, astronomy, and geometry; and was also well skilled in architecture. He himself instructed his son in the first rudiments of learning, and afterwards procured him the greatest masters of the age in philosophy and eloquence. Galen having finifhed his studies under their care, chose physic for his profession, and chiefly studied the works of Hippocrates. Having at length exhausted all the sources of literature that were to be found at home, he resolved to travel, in order to converse with the moft able physicians in all parts, intending at the fame time to take every opportunity of infpecting on the spot the plants and drugs of the countries through which he passed. With this view he went to Alexandria, and stayed fome years in that metropolis of Egypt; from thence he travelled through Cilicia; paflèd through Palestine; visited the ifles of Crete and Cyprus; and made two voyages to Lemnos, in order to examine the Lemnian earth, which was then efteemed an admirable medicine. With the fame view he went into the Lower Syria, in order to obtain a thorough insight into the nature of the opoballamum, or balm of Gilead; and having completed his defign, returned home by the way of Alexandria.

Galen had been four years at Pergamus, where his practice was attended with extraordinary applause, when fome feditious commotions induced him to go to Rome, where he refolved to settle: but the proofs he gave of his superior skill, added to the repute shown him by feveral persons of very high rank, created him fo many enemies among his brethren of the faculty, that he was obliged to quit the city, after having resided there four or five years. But he had not long returned to Pergamus, when he was recalled by the emperors Aurelius and Verus. After their death, he retired to his native country; where he died about the year 200. He wrote in Greek; and is faid to have composed two hundred volumes, which were unhappily burnt in the temple of Peace. The best editions of thoſe that remain, are, that printed at Basil in 1538, in five volumes, and that of Venice in 1625, in feven volumes. Galen was of a weak and delicate constitution, as he himself afferts; but he nevertheless, by his temperance and skill in physic, arrived at a great age; for it was his maxim, always to rife from table with fome degree of appetite. He is juftly confidered as the greateft physician of antiquity, next to Hippocrates; and he performed fuch surprising cures, that he was accused of magic.

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