| Spanish medical knowledge of the age, still heavily based on Galen and scholasticism, assumed that light-skinned men were colder and phlegmatic. |
| It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen. |
| Under Stalin and the Bolsheviks, any such opposition was impossible and Bishop von Galen would have been quickly disposed of. |
| Pharmaceutical stocks such as Elan and Galen are usually good defensive bulwarks. |
| Galen believed that medicine required both practical and theoretical elements. |
| Surgical care of scrotal trauma has evolved minimally since the early descriptions of Galen. |
