 |


|
 |
Item Details
Title:
|
ON THE NATURAL FACULTIES
|
By: |
Galen, A.J. Brock (Trans) |
Format: |
Hardback |

List price:
|
£24.95 |
Our price: |
£22.46 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£2.49 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0674990781 |
ISBN 13: |
9780674990784 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1916 |
Series: |
Loeb Classical Library |
Pages: |
394 |
Translated from: |
Greek, Modern (1453-) |
Description: |
Galen (129 199 CE) crystallized all the best work of the Greek medical schools which had preceded his own time, including Hippocrates foundational work six hundred years earlier. It is in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to later ages. |
Synopsis: |
If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was reared, then the work of Galen, who lived some six hundred years later, may be looked upon as the summit of the same edifice. He was born in Pergamum 129 CE, and both there and in other academic centres of the Aegean pursued his medical studies before being appointed physician to the Pergamene gladiators in 157. Becoming dissatisfied with this type of practice he emigrated to Rome, where he soon won acknowledgement as the foremost medical authority of his time and where, with one brief interruption, he remained until his death in 199. Galen's merit is to have crystallised or brought to a focus all the best work of the Greek medical schools which had preceded his own time. It is essentially in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to after ages. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
LOEB |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |


|

|

|

|

|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.

|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...

|

|

|
|
 |