Selected Works
Title | Selected Works PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Galen (AD 129-99), researcher and scholar, surgeon and philosopher, logician, herbalist and personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and multi-faceted medical author of antiquity. This is the first major selection in English of Galen's work, functioning as an essential introduction to his "medical philosophy" and including the first-ever translations of several major works. A detailed Introduction presents a vivid insight into medical practice as well as intellectual and everyday life in ancient Rome.
Selected Works
Title | Selected Works PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780192839374 |
Galen (AD 129-c. 210), researcher and scholar, surgeon and philosopher, logician, herbalist, and personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of antiquity.The work of Galen is fascinating for its innovations in anatomy and in the physiology of the brain and the nervous and vascular systems, and for its remarkable synthesis of previous ideas, in particular the famous 'four-humour' theory and the Platonic philosophy of mind. Galen dominated medicaltheory and practice until the scientific revolution and beyond, through the medieval Schools, and through his influence on Muslim medicine.This is the first major selection of Galen's work in English. It functions as an essential introduction to his 'medical philosophy' and includes several major works never previously translated. At the same time it presents a vivid insight into medical practice and intellectual and everyday life inancient Rome.
GALEN: Selected Works
Title | GALEN: Selected Works PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Medicine, Greek and Roman |
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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)
Title | Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108662196 |
Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
Title | Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Jouanna |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2012-07-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004208593 |
This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.
Galen on Anatomical Procedures
Title | Galen on Anatomical Procedures PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108009441 |
This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15.
Selected Works of Galen
Title | Selected Works of Galen PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
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Release | 1953 |
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Carbon copies of translations made by Robert M. Green of twenty works by Galen. They are arranged in the order they appear in C. G. Kuhn's Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig, 1821-33). The copies were microfilmed by the National Library of Medicine in 1979. Collection includes a full set of the translations on permalife paper.