As noted earlier Galen was from Peragamon and he travelled to Rome. Many orthopaedic surgeons consider him the"The father of Sports Medicine".
He gave a god accont of the skeleton and the nerves. He was the first to describe a cervical rib.
He described osteomylitis, the formation of sequestra and their treatment.
He also coined the words kyphosis, lodosis and scoliosis and described some treatment for these conditions.
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