"Medicine" is mostly devoted to Galen, a Greek physician in the Roman Empire who pioneered numerous medical techniques, honing his craft on wounded gladiators and soldiers on the battlefield. The unique discovery in this episode is a human skull that implies an effort to perform a rudimentary type of brain surgery. |
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Title: | Galen, Doctor to the Gladiators | |
Air Date: | December 21, 2003 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | History | |
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