Author: Keith Andrew Stewart Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004382798 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 188
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In Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart analyses Galen’s characterisation of black bile to understand the different ways it is used in his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.
Author: Caroline Petit Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004383301 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 302
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This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution to the theme of avoiding distress (ἀλυπία), controversial topics in Roman history such as the Antonine plague and the reign of Commodus, and finally the reception of the text in the Islamic world. Gathering eleven contributions by recognised specialists of Galen, Greek literature and Roman history, it revisits the new text extensively.
Author: Claudius Galen Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company ISBN: 1078749973 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher. The most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed greatly to the understanding of numerous scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then current theory of humorism, as advanced by many ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. His theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. Medical students continued to study Galen's writings until well into the 19th century. Galen conducted many nerve ligation experiments that supported the theory, which is still accepted today that the brain controls all the motions of the muscles by means of the cranial and peripheral nervous systems.
Author: Mark Grant Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134572700 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on his theory of the four humours, these works describe the effects on health of a vast range of foods including lettuce, lard, peaches and hyacinths. This book makes all his texts on food available in English for the first time, and provides many captivating insights into the ancient understanding of food and health.
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108662196 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 435
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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.
Author: Jacques Jouanna Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004208593 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 424
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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.
Author: Galen Publisher: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung ISBN: 9783050028774 Category : Four elements (Philosophy) Languages : de Pages : 236
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Herausgegeben von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Die Corpora der antiken Ärzte (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Corpus Medicorum Latinorum) haben die Aufgabe, die erhaltenen Schriften aller griechischen und lateinischen medizinischen Autoren, einschließlich der Fragmente aus nicht vollständig überlieferten Werken, vom 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum Ausgang der Antike in textkritischen Editionen mit Übersetzungen (wahlweise in Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch) und erschöpfenden Namen- und Wortverzeichnissen vorzulegen. Die Ausgaben können um Kommentare erweitert sein, die den Text in sachlicher, sprachlicher und textkritischer Hinsicht erschließen. Für die Konstituierung der edierten Texte, die in ihrem Charakter als historisch-kritische Ausgaben zuverlässige Quellen für die Erforschung der Geschichte der antiken Medizin bereitstellen, werden sämtliche bekannten primären und sekundären Überlieferungsträger ausgewertet, was sich zum einen auf die mittelalterlichen Handschriften und die frühen Drucke, zum anderen auf Exzerpte und Übersetzungen in lateinischer, arabischer, hebräischer oder syrischer Sprache bezieht. Die Ausgaben sind so angelegt, dass sie über einen langen Zeitraum hin im internationalen Maßstab die wissenschaftlich maßgebenden Editionen darstellen. Zum Akademievorhaben Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Corpus Medicorum Latinorum: http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/cmg/de/Ueberblick
Author: Susan P. Mattern Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019976767X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 367
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This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. --From publisher's description.
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