The great horde of physicians are always servile imitators, who can neither perceive nor correct the faults of their system, and are always ready to growl at and even to worry the ingenious person that could attempt it. Thus was the system of Galen secured in the possession of the schools of physic.
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"After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster."
"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"
"All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die."
"We therefore assume that it is either a text from the Roman physician Galen, or an unknown commentary on his work... describing a bizarre theory on hysteria by the Greco-Roman physician Galen (A.D. 13…"
"The mind's inclination follows the body's temperature."
A critical assessment of his medical rivals and the dogmatism within the medical profession of his time, revealing his self-perception as a superior and innovative figure.
Date: 2nd century CE (from his writings, cited in 1827)
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