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Science 1 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5556, pp. 800 - 801
DOI: 10.1126/science.1066244
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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
Logic, Learning, and Experimental Medicine

Vivian Nutton

Galen of Pergamum was one of the most influential medical men in history. In her essay, Nutton charts his life and explains how neglecting Galen's emphasis on experiment hampered progress in medicine until his methods were rediscovered in the Renaissance.

The author is in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD, UK. E-mail: v.nutton{at}ucl.ac.uk

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