Galen and the Neurosciences

He was more analytic than Hippocrates in his dissertations, concerning the description of the diseases and pathological conditions, attempting to associate the clinical medicine with the experimental investigation [5]. Galen as an author was very productive. His extensive work covered almost every scientific and philosophical field. He composed more than five hundred dissertations on anatomy, medicine, philosophy, medical ethics, logic and grammar. In his numerous dissertations on Medicine, Galen tried to incorporate all the existed theories in Medicine and Philosophy, giving emphasis in his personal observations, theories, ideas, concepts and doctrines. He attempted to harmonize the Hippocratic medical pragmatism [6] with the Platonism, Stoicism and Neo-Platonism, accepting at the same time the majority of the Aristotelian doctrines [7,8], given that he lived under the special philosophical and literary atmosphere of Hellenistic World [9,10].