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tion, the beginning of a real knowledge of the organs of the human 
body. 
Roman Period. While the Romans were expert in political or- 
ganization and in the arts of writing and speaking, scientific prog- 


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Fic. 5. A herbalist is climbing an oak to gather mistletoe. A rhizo- 
tomist is digging up roots. From a drawing traced from a facsimile on 
Plate XXII of the Atlas to Giacosa’s Magistri Salernatani, Turin, 1901. 
The 15th century Saroyan Ms., from which the drawing was traced, has since 
perished. Reproduced from Charles Singer, Studies in the History and 
Method of Science, Vol. II, p. 59. (10,106) 
— 
ress in medicine during the Roman period was about nil. This 
was the time of Galen (Claudius Galenus, 130 A.D.), another 
Alexandrian whose ideas about medicine were accepted for many 
hundreds of years. In fact, as late as 1560 a certain “Dr. Geynes 
was not admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
