… After a short return to Pergamum, where he was physician to the gladiators, Galen went
to Rome, where he soon became a famous physician, teacher and researcher, and he left
behind a foundation for the life sciences that was not challenged for roughly 1,000 years.
His name is immortalized in the term 'galenics' (the teachings of the natural composition of
remedies). … It is impossible to imagine what would be known in biology and medicine
without the work of hundreds of Italian scholars and scientists. Over more than two millennia …