Author: GalenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prognosis
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
On Prognosis
Author: GalenGalen on Prognosis
Author: Vivian NuttonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112741595
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Galen on Prognosis".
Galen
Author: Vivian NuttonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000061604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton’s wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical education, as well as his later career in Rome and his role as court physician for over forty years. It examines Galen's philosophical approach to medicine and the body, his practices of prognosis and dissection, and his ideas about preventative medicine and drugs. A final chapter explores the continuing impact of Galen's work in the centuries after his death, from his pre-eminence in Islamic medicine to his resurgence in Western medicine in the Renaissance, and his continuing impact through to the nineteenth century even after the discoveries of Vesalius and Harvey. Galen is the definitive biography this fascinating figure, written by the preeminent Galen scholar, and offers an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Galen and his work, and the history of medicine more broadly.
Galen on the Pulses
Author: Ian JohnstonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110611880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only significant account of Western views surviving from ancient times. Not only does he set out his own views in great detail but he also gives a large amount of information on the views of others whose writings are lost. In the translated treatises in the present work, Galen deals with basic anatomy and physiology, classification of the types of pulses, diagnosis of and from the pulses, causal factors of clinical relevance and the very important matter of the prognostic value of the pulses. This is the first translation into a modern Western language of Galen's very substantial body of work on this subject.
The Prince of Medicine
Author: Susan P. MatternPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019976767X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
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.
On the Natural Faculties
Author: Claudius GalenPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 1078749973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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.
The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen
Author: HippocratesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Author: Christopher GillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521767512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Author: R. J. HankinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826913
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years.
A History of Autobiography in Antiquity
Author: Georg MischPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415176088
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.