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the time of Hippocrates. Neither one nor the
other dwelt much on the uses of the parts. Rufus
writes Greek in the concise Attic style, and Celsus
is the most classical writer that ever appeared in the
art of medicine.

Claudius Galenus, or Galen, was physician
to four emperors, and was, without exception, the
most distinguished practitioner of the age in which he
lived. He has arranged all the prior anatomical sci-
ence that Herophilus and Erisistratus had obtained
from the actual dissection of human subjects, and in-
corporated it into his voluminous treatises on all the
branches of medicine. The medical principles of
this great man, formed on the Peripatetic philosophy
of Aristotle, are not to the present purpose ; ex-
cept that they reigned triumphantly in the schools
and universities, disdaining and crushing all innova-
tors, or improvers, for a period of nearly fifteen,
hundred years. The celebrated Galen, however,
was a man of uncommon erudition ; and he brought
into one point of view, with much labour, learning,
and industry, all the medical and philosophical sci-
ence of his predecessors. The anatomical part was,
indubitably extracted from the great Herophilus and
Erisistratus, and, consequently, in general contains
what those first dissectors of human bodies, had

observed or written. In the works of this eminent

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