Galen

On The Natural Faculties

Galenus

"Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized the entirety of Greek medicine as a basis for his own doctrines and practice, which comprehensively embraced theory, practical knowledge, experiment, logic, and a deep understanding of human life and society. Method of Medicine, a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Galen's greatest and most influential works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections. The Loeb Method of medicine is in three volumes."--Book jacket.

METHOD OF MEDICINE, VOLUME I

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

Rudolph E. Siegel

'This book should be available to every medical student embarking upon his clinical studies. Galen encompasses the best Hippocratic teaching; his didactic system loses none of its quality because his theories of physiology are erroneous. Galen applied his mind to the problems of illness, whereas we tend greatly to use illness to demonstrate our technological achievement.'South African Medical Journal

Translation from the Greek Text with Explanatory Notes

Galen on the Affected Parts

On Prognosis

Malcolm Cameron Lyons

ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān

Quoad Exstat, Ex Codice Scorialensi Et Excerpta

In Hippocratis De Officina Medici Commentariorum Versionem Arabicam

Nicholas Culpeper

In this Sixt Edition You May Find, 1. Three Hundred Useful Additions, 2. All the Notes that Were in the Margent ..., 3. on the Top of the Pages of this Impression is Printed, the Sixt Edition ..., 4. the Vertues, Qualities, and Properties of Every Simple, 5. the Vertues and Use of the Compounds, 6. Cautions in Giving Al Medicines that are Dangerous, 7. All the Medicines that Were in the Old Latin Dispensatory ... 8. a Key to Galen's Method of Physick ..., 9. in Every Page Two Columns, 10. in this Impression, the Latin Name of Every One of the Compounds ...

Pharmacopœia Londinensis, Or, The London Dispensatory Further Adorned ...

Ian Johnston

In Method of Medicine, Galen (129-199 CE) provides a comprehensive and influential account of the principles of treating injury and disease. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections.

Books 10-14

Method of Medicine, Volume III

جالينوس

... zum ersten Male veröffentlicht nach den Handschriften einer arabischen Übersetzung des 9. Jahrh. n. Chr

كتاب جالينوس في عمل التشريح

An English Translation of Galen's "De Captionibus (On Fallacies)" with Introduction, Text, and Commentary

Galen on Language and Ambiguity

Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth

M.C. Lyons

Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10-15). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.

The Later Books

Galen on Anatomical Procedures

Peri Chreias Moriōn [romanized Form] De Usu Partium

Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body

This is the first title in a new series: Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers. Modelled on the successful Clarendon Plato Series and Clarendon Aristotle Series, it will provide faithful and accurate translations together with notes on textual problems. On the Therapeutic Method, a key text in later Greek philosophy of science, written by, who was one of the major intellects of his time. Dr Hankinson's translation makes it accessible for the first time to readerswithout a classical background.

On the Therapeutic Method

Galen's treatises on the classification and causation of diseases and symptoms are an important component of his prodigious oeuvre, forming a bridge between his theoretical works and his practical, clinical writings. As such, they remained an integral component of the medical teaching curriculum well into the second millennium. This edition was originally published in 2006. In these four treatises (only one of which had been previously translated into English), Galen not only provides a framework for the exhaustive classification of diseases and their symptoms as a prelude to his analysis of their causation, but he also attempts to establish precise definitions of all the key terms involved. Unlike other of his works, these treatises are notably moderate in tone, taking into account different views on structure and causation in a relatively even-handed way. Nonetheless, they are a clear statement of the Dogmatic position on the theoretical foundations of medicine in his time.

Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms

On the Elements According to Hippocrates

Glen M. Cooper

This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.

كتاب جالينوس في ايام البحران

Oeuvres Anatomiques, Physiologiques Et Medicales

This book presents a translation of and detailed commentary on Galen's De alimentorum facultatibus - his major work on the dynamics and kinetics of various foods. It is thus primarily a physiological treatise rather than a materia medica or a work on pathology. Galen commences with a short section on the epistemology of medicine, with a discussion on the attainment, through apodeixis or demonstration, of scientific truth - a discussion which reveals the Aristotelian roots of his thinking. The text then covers a wide range of foods, both common and exotic. Some, such as cereals, legumes, dairy products and the grape, receive an emphasis that reflects their importance at the time; others are treated more cursorily. Dr Powell, an expert in gastroenterology, discusses Galen's terminology and the background to his views on physiology and pathology in his introduction, while John Wilkins' foreword concentrates on the structural and cultural aspects of the work.

Galen: On the Properties of Foodstuffs

R. Walzer

M. Frede

Contents: Introduction, Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentioned in the Texts Index of the Subjects Mentioned in the Texts

Three Treatises on the Nature of Science

Galen

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