When1: 175
When2: 190
Who: Galen
What: doctor
Where: Pergamon, Asia Minor/Greece
works\ On the Elements According to Hippocrates [175 to 190]; On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Human Body [175 to 190: Body parts are as good as they can be for the purpose]
Detail: He lived 131 to 201 and probably developed the fourth syllogism figure. He diagnosed disease by pulse, dissected animals, and observed living and dead nerves, blood, and organs. Blood flows back and forth through body. Following Erasistratus [-280], body has three spirit types {pneuma, Galen}: natural spirit from liver, vital spirit from left heart ventricle, and animal spirit from brain. The four temperaments {temperaments, Galen} are choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, and sanguine.
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