“The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” (Scribner, $30), by Siddhartha Mukherjee: In the second century A.D., the Greek physician Claudius Galen proposed that cancer was an excess of an ...
(this story originally appeared in Synapse) by Yu Xie The Greek physician Claudius Galen (A.D. 131-200) was an important contributor to the science of anatomy. He was one of the first to accurately ...
In the second century A.D., the Greek physician Claudius Galen proposed that cancer was an excess of an oily liquid called black bile. His view of cancer as a hopeless, systemic disease prevailed for ...
In the second century A.D., the Greek physician Claudius Galen proposed that cancer was an excess of an oily liquid called black bile. His view of cancer as a hopeless, systemic disease prevailed for ...