A terrible epidemic swept through the Roman Empire in the second half of the 2nd century, between 165 and 180 AD, claiming ...

Vanished without a trace, his phone and belongings left behind in his hotel room—his daughter and granddaughter recount his ...

He stayed in bed for 14 days before he was cured. We’re not told how. Later, the famous doctor Galen of Pergamum (129-216AD) observed that people often become sick because of a bad mental state: It ...

According to the World Health Organization, about 280 million people worldwide have depression and about one billion have a mental health problem of any kind. People living in the ancient world ...

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Journal for the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 24, Issue. 3, p. 251. This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in ...