Editing Galen (section)

===Medical education===
Following his earlier liberal education, Galen at age 16 began his studies at the prestigious local healing temple or [[asclepeion]] as a θεραπευτής (''therapeutes'', or attendant) for four years. There he came under the influence of men like [[Aeschrion of Pergamon]], Stratonicus and Satyrus. Asclepiea functioned as spas or sanitoria to which the sick would come to seek the ministrations of the priesthood. Romans frequented the temple at Pergamon in search of medical relief from illness and disease. It was also the haunt of notable people such as the historian Claudius Charax, the orator [[Aelius Aristides]], the sophist [[Polemon of Laodicea|Polemo]], and the consul [[Cuspius Rufinus]].

Galen's father died in 148, leaving Galen independently wealthy at the age of 19. He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates' teaching<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daedalus.umkc.edu/hippocrates/HippocratesLoeb1/page.66.php?size=240x320|title=Hippocrates Collected Works I|website=daedalus.umkc.edu|access-date=11 December 2009|archive-date=30 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930083013/http://daedalus.umkc.edu/hippocrates/HippocratesLoeb1/page.66.php?size=240x320|url-status=dead}}</ref> and traveled and studied widely including such destinations as [[Smyrna]] (now [[İzmir]]), [[Roman Corinth|Corinth]], [[Crete]], [[Cilicia]] (now [[Çukurova]]), [[Cyprus]], and finally the great medical school of [[Medicine in ancient Greece|Alexandria]], exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine. In 157, aged 28, he returned to Pergamon as physician to the gladiators of the High Priest of Asia, one of the most influential and wealthy men in Asia. Galen claims that the High Priest chose him over other physicians after he eviscerated an ape and challenged other physicians to repair the damage. When they refused, Galen performed the [[surgery]] himself and in so doing won the favor of the High Priest of Asia. Over his four years there, he learned the importance of diet, fitness, hygiene, and preventive measures, as well as living anatomy, and the treatment of fractures and severe trauma, referring to their [[wounds]] as "windows into the body". Only five deaths among the gladiators occurred while he held the post, compared to sixty in his predecessor's time, a result that is in general ascribed to the attention he paid to their wounds. At the same time he pursued studies in theoretical medicine and philosophy.<ref name="nutton73"/><ref name="ustun">Ustun C. Galen and his anatomic eponym: Vein of Galen. Clinical Anatomy Volume 17 Issue 6 454–457, 2004</ref><ref name="grant">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyip3Kf68TYC&pg=PP9|title=Galen on Food and Diet|last1=Galen|first2=Mark|last2=Grant|date= 2018|publisher=Psychology Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780415232333}}</ref><ref>Gleason, M. Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome. Princeton 1995</ref>