In Method of Medicine, Galen 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.
In Method of Medicine, Galen 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.
In Method of Medicine, Galen 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.
In his treatises Hygiene, Thrasybulus, and On Exercise with a Small Ball, Galen of Pergamum addresses topics of preventive medicine, health, and wellness that continue to resonate with practices of modern doctors and physical therapists.
In On Temperaments, Galen of Pergamum sets out his concept of the combination of the four elemental qualities... Læs mere
In the three works in this volume, On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and A... Læs mere
A new edition of On Antecedent Causes, Galen's fascinating treatise on causal theory. The text is accompanied by the first translation of the treatise into a modern language.... Læs mere
In Galen's four treatises he not only provides a framework for the exhaustive classification of diseases and their symptoms as a prelude to his analysis of their... Læs mere
This work lucidly describes the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in turn affected by it, and contains revealing snippets of social... Læs mere
A new edition of On Antecedent Causes, Galen's fascinating treatise on causal theory. The text is accompanied by the first translation of the treatise into a modern language.... Læs mere
In Galen's four treatises he not only provides a framework for the exhaustive classification of diseases and their symptoms as a prelude to his analysis of their... Læs mere
This work lucidly describes the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in turn affected by it, and contains revealing snippets of social... Læs mere