Ancient Discoveries

Medicine - Galen, Doctor to the Gladiators (1x2)

Air date: Dec 21, 2003

"Medicine" is mostly devoted to Galen, a Greek physician in the Roman Empire who pioneered numerous medical techniques, honing his craft on wounded gladiators and soldiers on the battlefield. The unique discovery in this episode is a human skull that implies an effort to perform a rudimentary type of brain surgery.