his seventeenth year under Satyrus.
In his writings, Galen gives many details of his life, mentioning the
names of his teachers, and many incidents in his Wanderjahre, during
which he studied at the best medical schools, including Alexandria.
Returning to his native city he was put in charge of the gladiators,
whose wounds he said he treated with wine. In the year 162, he paid
his first visit to Rome, the scene of his greatest labors. Here he gave
public lectures on anatomy, and became "the fashion." He mentions
many of his successes; one of them is the well-worn story told also of
Erasistratus and Stratonice, but Galen's story is worth telling, and it
is figured as a miniature in the manuscripts of his works. Called to see
a lady he found her suffering from general malaise without any fever
or increased action of the pulse. He saw at once that her trouble was
mental and, like a wise physician, engaged her in general conversation.
Quite possibly he knew her story, for the name of a certain actor,
Pylades, was mentioned, and he noticed that her pulse at once increased
in rapidity and became irregular. On the next day he arranged that the
name of another actor, Morphus, should be mentioned, and on the third
day the experiment was repeated but without effect. Then on the fourth
evening it was again mentioned that Pylades was dancing, and the pulse
quickened and became irregular, so he concluded that she was in love
with Pylades. He tells how he was first called to treat the Emperor
Marcus Aurelius, who had a stomach-ache after eating too much cheese. He
treated the case so successfully that the Emperor remarked, "I have but
one physician, and he is a gentleman." He seems to have had good fees,
as he received 400 aurei (about 2000) for a fortnight's attendance upon
the wife of Boethus.

He left Rome for a time in 168 A. D. and returned to Pergamon, but was
recalled to Rome by the Emperor, whom he accompanied on an expedition
to Germany. There are records in his writings of many journeys, and busy
with his practice in dissections and experiments he passed a long and
energetic life, dying, according to most authorities, in the year 200
A.D.

A sketch of the state of medicine in Rome is given by Celsus in the
first of his eight books, and he mentions the names of many of the
leading practitioners, particularly Asclepiades, the Bithynian, a man
of great ability, and a follower of the Alexandrians, who regarded all
disease as