Galen Writings On Health

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009179898

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Galen: Writings on Health by Anonim Pdf

Galen's Health (De sanitate tuenda) was the most important work on daily exercise, diet and health regimes in antiquity. This book presents the first reliable scholarly translation of this work in English, alongside the related theoretical work Thrasybulus. A substantial introduction and thorough annotation elucidate both works and contextualize them within the framework of ancient health practices, ancient conceptions of the body and debates between medical and philosophical schools. The texts are of enormous interest from three points of view: (1) the wide range of insights they give into ancient everyday lifestyles, especially as regards diet, bathing, exercise and materia medica, as well as aspects of daily intellectual life; (2) the light they shed on ancient debates within medicine and philosophy, on fundamental conceptions of the body and the relationship between body and mind; (3) the enormous influence that Health had in mediaeval and early modern times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108662192

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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) by Anonim Pdf

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 : Mark Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134572700

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Galen on Food and Diet by Mark Grant Pdf

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 : Galen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691242897

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How to Be Healthy by Galen Pdf

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and inventor, Galen attended the court of Marcus Aurelius, living through outbreaks of plague (likely smallpox) that devastated the Roman Empire. He also served as physician for professional gladiators, boasting that only two fighters died during his first year (his predecessor had lost sixteen). In writings that provided the foundation of Western medicine up to the nineteenth century, Galen created a unified account of health and disease. In How to Be Healthy, practicing physician and classical historian Katherine Van Schaik presents a collection of Galen’s enduring insights about how we can take care of our bodies and minds, prevent disease, and reach a healthy old age. Although we now know that many of Galen’s ideas about physiology are wrong, How to Be Healthy shows that much of his advice remains sound. In these selections from his writings, presented in fresh translations, Galen discusses the art of medicine, exercise and diet, the mind-body connection, the difficulty of applying general medical principles to individuals, and much more. Featuring an introduction, brief commentaries that connect ancient medical practices to modern ones, and the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Healthy offers an entertaining and enlightening new perspective on the age-old pursuit of wellness, from the importance of “the exercise with a small ball” to the benefits of “avoiding distress.”

Author : Galen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139460842

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Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms by Galen Pdf

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.

Author : Galen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041059695

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Selected Works by Galen Pdf

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.

Author : Susan P. Mattern
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801896347

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Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing by Susan P. Mattern Pdf

Galen is the most important physician of the Roman imperial era. Many of his theories and practices were the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his death and some practices—like checking a patient’s pulse—are still used today. He also left a vast corpus of writings which makes up a full one-eighth of all surviving ancient Greek literature. Through her readings of hundreds of Galen’s case histories, Susan P. Mattern presents the first systematic investigation of Galen’s clinical practice. Galen’s patient narratives illuminate fascinating interplay among the craft of healing, social class, professional competition, ethnicity, and gender. Mattern describes the public, competitive, and masculine nature of medicine among the urban elite and analyzes the relationship between clinical practice and power in the Roman household. She also finds that although Galen is usually perceived as self-absorbed and self-promoting, his writings reveal him as sensitive to the patient’s history, symptoms, perceptions, and even words. Examining his professional interactions in the context of the world in which he lived and practiced, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing provides a fresh perspective on a foundational figure in medicine and valuable insight into how doctors thought about their patients and their practice in the ancient world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1009382543

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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) by Anonim Pdf

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 : Keith Andrew Stewart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004382794

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Galen’s Theory of Black Bile by Keith Andrew Stewart Pdf

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 : Susan P. Mattern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199767670

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The Prince of Medicine by Susan P. Mattern Pdf

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.

Author : Claudius Galen
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781078749978

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On the Natural Faculties by Claudius Galen Pdf

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 : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Barbara Zipser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004394353

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Barbara Zipser Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.

Author : Galen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
ISBN : LCCN:2011921281

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Method of Medicine by Galen Pdf

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004208599

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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen by Jacques Jouanna Pdf

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 : Claude Galien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:953074891

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Method of medicine by Claude Galien Pdf