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Because the dissection of human bodies became illegal in Rome, Galen used his treatment of Gladiator's wounds as windows to the function of different body parts.
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Galen quickly rose in the ranks of the medical profession due to his impressive public demonstrations of anatomy, and his ability to "cure" the "incurable".
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Galen quickly became one of the top medical professionals in the Roman Empire. He combined medicine with philosophy and emphasized that understanding anatomy was essential to medicine.
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Became the new Emperor's (Marcus Aurelius's son Commodus) physician.
