The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
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Huberman recommends this book to listeners as an aside while discussing the history of barbaric medicine.
Why it came up
- Huberman calls it a wonderful book
- How medicine was learned back when surgery meant no anaesthesia
- A biography of Galen, the physician who shaped a millennium of practice
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“wonderful book, by the way, folks is the Prince of Medicine about Galen”
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