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HUMAN DISSECTION. ITS DRAMA AND STRUGGLE 



considerably as he experienced the exaltation of growing up in 

 one of the leading cities of the world. 



The parents of Galen were wealthy and educated. His father 

 was an intelligent and kindly man who took a deep interest in hisj 

 son's education; by contrast, his mother was a high-strung, iras- 



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Figure I. Claudius Galen (A.D. 130-200). From|Ball, J. M.: The Sack-' em^ 

 up Men. London, Oliver & Boyd, 1928. By permission of Oliver & Boyc 



cible and difficult woman. Although the boy studied the various 

 systems of philosophy under the most distinguished teachers, h< 

 turned to medicine partly on the advice of his father, who ha( 

 been inspired in a dream by Asklepios (Fisher, 1881b). It mayl 



