Galen

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Period Forms:

Galen Browne was a late period English physician who practiced medicine 1619-1639 (British History Online, @http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=17273&strquery=Galen Browne); this was the documentation cited for the registration of Galen ap Rhys name, registered December 2011.

Precedents:

From Compiled Name Precedents

Galen
Jaelle of Armida	1998.02	[Galen Stuart] Some questions were raised as to how well known a classical Greek physician would be in medieval England. Writings by Galen or attributed to him formed much of the basis of the medieval medical literature (Siraisi, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice, pp. 6, 10, 71-72, etc). Even very late in period, Galen was so familiar to the popular audience that Shakespeare used his name as a shorthand tag to denote a doctor (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 3). (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR February 1998, p. 2)
Da'ud ibn Auda (2nd tenure, 2nd year)	1996.04	[Galen] The medical writings of Claudius Galenus, better known as Galen, were known in the Middle Ages, and there are a few examples of English use of Classical names c. 1200, so we are giving the name the benefit of the doubt. (Talan Gwynek, LoAR April 1996, p. 2)

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