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Galen of Pergamum (ca. 130-ca. 200 AD) was a Greek physician. He performed extensive dissections and vivisections on animals. He is the author of ”On the Natural Faculties”. Many of his views about human anatomy were false since he had performed his dissections on pigs, apes, and dogs.

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