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Question 119

What best describes the later influence of Galen's Greek-language medical writings?

  1. They influenced several scholarly worlds for many centuries.Correct answer
  2. Their influence ended within one Greek city in his lifetime.
  3. They became the original text of Euclid's Elements.
  4. They were forgotten until modern medicine recreated them.

Explanation

Galen's works remained important to medical education for centuries as they circulated through Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin scholarly settings. Restricting their impact to one city misses this wide and long transmission, while crediting him with a geometry text confuses authors.

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