One and Only Physician
James Romm: Galen, 21 November 2013
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
by Susan Mattern.
Oxford, 334 pp., £20, July 2013,978 0 19 960545 3 Show More
by Susan Mattern.
Oxford, 334 pp., £20, July 2013,
“... and variegated bibliography. In the prologue to The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire Susan Mattern includes this astounding sentence: ‘The most modern edition of his corpus runs to 22 volumes, including about 150 titles, making up one-eighth of all the classical Greek literature that survives.’ Galen’s productivity was such that some ... ”
