TY  - JOUR
T1  - GAlen and the rhetoric of healing
AU  - Porter D
Y1  - 2009/05/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.721
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2050
EP  - 2051
VL  - 301
IS  - 19
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.721
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.721
ER  -