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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bishop" data-source="post: 7817939" data-attributes="member: 281253"> NOW WE SHALL LOOK AT GALEN Galen was born in 131 AD in Pergamum (modern Bergama in Turkey). Our knowledge of his book, De Semine, depends on two Greek manuscripts of the 15th and 16th century and two Arabic copies from the 12th and 13th century of the same translation made in about 840 AD, i.e. 700 years after Galen lived. Galen's work was considered so important that copies were still being made in 1500 AD. Secondly, although the Arabic copies reflect a translation made 700 years after Galen's life, no one doubts their essential accuracy. I mention this because in comparison we Christians have 75% of the Greek Gospel-New Testament in papyrus copies from only 150 years after Christ ascended into heaven, and we have 2 complete Greek copies from 350 AD. Therefore, there is no reason to doubt the essential accuracy of the Gospel-New Testament either. It has not been changed. Galen - On Semen Galen says, "The substance from which the fetus is formed is not merely menstrual blood, as Aristotle maintained, but menstrual blood plus the two semens." p 50. The Qur'an agrees with Galen here when it says in Sura 76:2, "We created man from a drop of mingled sperm." Embryological Development Concerning Embryological development, Galen also taught that the embryo developed in stages. He wrote, "the first is that in which ... the form of the semen prevails. At this time Hippocrates too, the all marvelous, ... still calls it semen (geniture)." The next stage is "when it has been filled with blood, and heart, brain and liver are (still) unarticulated and unshaped ... this is the period ... that Hippocrates (called) foetus." (The Quranic Sura 22:5 reflects this when it says, "... Then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed ...") "And now the third period of gestation has come ... Thus it (nature) caused flesh to grow on and around all the bones." We saw above that the Qur'an agrees with this in Sura 23:14 where it says, "And we clothed the bones (with) meat." "The fourth and final period (puer or child - verse 9) is at the stage when all the parts in the limbs have been differentiated." (Galen, op.cit. I 9, verses 1-9, p. 92-95.)   GALEN'S STAGES OF PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT STAGE 1. The two semens   STAGE 1b. plus menstrual blood   STAGE 2. unshaped flesh   STAGE 3. bones   STAGE 3b. flesh grows on and around the bones    Thus we see that Galen also has stages. He divides them differently, but the sequence is the same.THE XVI BOOKS OF GALEN AS THE BASIS OF MEDICAL STUDIES Galen was so important in medicine that just about the time of the Hejira, four leading medical men in Alexandria, Egypt decided to form a medical school using 16 books of Galen as the basis of the studies. This continued up to and including the 13th century. (LeClerc, op. cit., p. 41.) </blockquote>

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