The Prince of Medicine Quotes

“Laws prohibiting the throwing of feces, animal carcasses, and human corpses into the street would not have been necessary if there were not a problem,”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“Galen thus includes the corpses of “bandits lying unburied on a hillside” among opportunities to observe human remains (”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“The Greenland ice sheet preserves the record of elevated levels of lead released into the atmosphere by Roman-era silver smelting. From”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“Many gladiators boast on their epitaphs of having harmed none of their opponents, and this may have been expected and honorable conduct: thus some complain that they were killed by deceit or betrayal, and one epitaph even records the revenge-killing of a renegade gladiator who unnecessarily slew his opponent.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“A gladiator’s chance of death in any particular contest, either in the arena or later of his wounds, was about one in nine.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“No one inside was wailing. For Theagenes had neither servant nor boy nor wife, but only his philosopher friends were around him, who behave properly in the care of the dead, not being inclined to mourn.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire