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Claudius Galen: Claudius Galenus 129 CE – c. 200/c. 216; Anglicized as Galen and sometimes known as Galen of Pergamon was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire.

Comment: Galen’s teachings greatly influenced the future of medicine for 1600 years until officially dethroned by Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory Of Disease took dominance in medical thinking between 1850 and 1890.

Closely aligned with Galen’s teachings was the theory of miasmic generated disease.

Galen’s influence was overpowering because his writings were profuse and the only writings to survive the fall of Rome and the Dark Ages.

Galen’s understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism (also known as the theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm), as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates.

Galen went to Rome in 162 and made his mark as a practicing physician. During the autumn of 169 when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, a great plague broke out, and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome. He was ordered to accompany Marcus and Verus to Germany as the court physician.

The following spring Marcus was persuaded to release Galen after receiving a report that Asclepius was against the project. He was left behind to act as physician to the imperial heir Commodus. It was here in court that Galen wrote extensively on medical subjects. Ironically, Lucius Verus died in 169, and Marcus Aurelius himself died in 180, both victims of the plague.

Galen was the physician to Commodus for much of the emperor’s life and treated his common illnesses. In about 189, under Commodus’ reign, a pestilence occurred which at its height killed 2,000 people a day in Rome. This was most likely the same plague that struck Rome during Marcus Aurelius’ reign.

Galen’s teaching on the Four Humors dominated medicine until the late 1800’s.

Miasma: noxious exhalations from the bowels of Earth that transmit poisonous effluvia or germs to the atmosphere. In other words, medical, superstition!

Miasmic superstition totally dominated medical thinking into the early 1900”s, and truth be told, it is very much alive today.  Fact is anytime medicine can’t explain the presence of dis-ease, they fall-back to talking in terms of miasma, but these days it’s miasma wrapped in virus theory to add a twist of make-believe science.

Sixteen-hundred years of Galen idiocy was displaced by Pasteur’s flimflam known as, The Germ Theory of Disease until the late 1800s.  Germ Theory was perfect because it fueled public superstition and belief in miasmas, but with a scientific-like name: germs!

For over a 100 years the experts blamed Pellagra and beriberi on unidentified, miasmas.  John Thomas would remind readers that the same breed of medical ding-dongs running the show back then are the same ding-dongs that today claim COVID-19 is a virus-driven disease.

After 100 years of suffering and hundreds of thousands of deaths, it was PROVEN that most so-called diseases that are NOT DISEASES AT ALL!  Rather, they are conditions of toxicity and deficiency.  Unfortunately, medical ding-dongs are still running the show today.

Medical-science defers to miasmas and humors to explain-away degenerative disorders for which they have no answers.  Galen taught that four bad humors were responsible for dis-ease and death and appeared as distinct personality types, namely: melancholy, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic.

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