Scott Akerman

“Galen thus includes the corpses of “bandits lying unburied on a hillside” among opportunities to observe human remains (”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“A gladiator’s chance of death in any particular contest, either in the arena or later of his wounds, was about one in nine.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“The Greenland ice sheet preserves the record of elevated levels of lead released into the atmosphere by Roman-era silver smelting. From”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“No one inside was wailing. For Theagenes had neither servant nor boy nor wife, but only his philosopher friends were around him, who behave properly in the care of the dead, not being inclined to mourn.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire