RT Journal
A1 Porter D
T1 GAlen and the rhetoric of healing
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD May 20
VO 301
IS 19
SP 2050
OP 2051
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.721
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.721
AB 
In second-century Rome, the well-traveled physician from Pergamum rapidly gained prominence through his successful treatment of important friends and contacts among his father's patrician class and ultimately was requested by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus to serve in the Germanic wars. He declined but remained in Rome to treat Aurelius' son, Commodus, and, after Verus' death, the Emperor Septimius Severus.