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Your excellent essays on links between mental and physical health brought to mind Maimonides, court physician to Sultan Saladin in the 12th century. Comparing Maimonides' approach with the more traditional one of the Greek physician Galen, a grateful patient wrote, "Galen's art heals only the body, but Maimonides' the body and soul." HENRY WINTERS Columbia...
Jeremy P. Galen ’05 called collective security a “pipe dream,” saying that action cannot depend on a world consensus...
...Sitting on our hands would take forever,” said Galen during an exchange with Wallis...
...author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C. But the emperor also thought his pot potion would help memory, making him the first of many fans to aggrandize the drug's medical potential. The ancient Greek doc Galen even used the drug to treat flatulence...
...Isn’t it remarkable how a university that prides itself on its critical distance from reality is satirized in modern media?” said Jeremy P. Galen...