Galen's Greek Original: The Book That Made Medicine Worse
Renaissance

Galen's Greek Original: The Book That Made Medicine Worse

A Greek scholar fled the fall of Constantinople in 1453 carrying the most important book in Europe—and nobody could read what it actually said.

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