Galen

High school (ages 12+)
Human Body

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Galen born?September 129 AD
2. Where was Galen born?Pergamon, Roman Asia (modern-day Turkey)
3. When did Galen die?Circa 216 AD (at least 70 years old)
4. What is the career?Physician, surgeon, anatomist, pharmacologist, philosopher; personal physician to Roman emperors
5. Who was Galen?Galen was a very smart doctor from ancient Rome who studied how the body works. He lived a long time ago, around the year 129 AD, and became a famous teacher and scientist.
6. What did Galen do to learn about the body?He traveled around the Mediterranean, read many books, and practiced medicine. Because people were not allowed to cut up human bodies, he studied animals like apes and pigs to learn about anatomy.

Vivisection: The practice of performing surgery on or cutting into living animals for scientific research.
Pathology: The study of the causes and effects of diseases and injuries.
Empiricism: The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience, observation, and experimentation.