John Caius And The Manuscripts Of Galen

Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913701192

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John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen by Vivian Nutton Pdf

John Caius (1510-75) enjoyed a European reputation as a Galenist physician. This study, based on his marginalia preserved in Eton and Cambridge, describes Caius' immense efforts to see and collate medical manuscripts in Italy and England over almost two decades. His reports are important for a modern editor of Galen, since many of these 'codices' are, apparently, now lost, and some were of high quality. Caius' notes also shed light on the growth of medical humanism, on the accessibility of Greek books and manuscripts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the methods of Renaissance editors of Greek technical prose texts. Caius' evidence also prompts a reassessment of the 1525 Aldine Galen, and of the activities of two of its editors, John Clement and Edward Wotton. This study is of importance to students of both ancient medicine and the transmission of Greek learning in the West.

Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351653282

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An Autobibliography by John Caius by Vivian Nutton Pdf

John Caius (1510–1573), second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was an English scholar with an international reputation in his lifetime as a naturalist, historian and medical writer. His Autobibliography is a major contribution to the history of English culture in the middle years of the sixteenth century and has been translated into English for the first time in this book. Beginning with an in-depth introduction to John Caius’ life and works, An Autobibliography by John Caius provides a wealth of information to support and accompany the translation of this significant text. In his Autobibliography, Caius lists the books that he wrote but also details the circumstances of their writing. He describes his travels in Italy in search of manuscripts of the ancient Greek doctor Galen of Pergamum as well as giving an insight into his personal life, including his vigorously conservative views, whether on medicine, spelling and pronunciation, or on Cambridge University. His religious views, which led to the ransacking of his rooms by a Cambridge mob, are explored in detail in Appendix II of this book. In Appendix I, recent discoveries of books owned and annotated by Caius are used to supplement what he says about his activities, as well as to trace at least one of his lost works in Italy and Denmark. The resulting picture throws light on European medicine in the sixteenth century, as well as on the humanistic culture that linked learned men and women across Renaissance Europe.

Author : John L. Flood,David J. Shaw
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 2600002073

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Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560) by John L. Flood,David J. Shaw Pdf

Cette biographie retrace la vie et l'oeuvre de Johannes Sinapius, helléniste en Allemagne, devenu médecin en Italie, ami intime d'Erasme, de Melanchton, de Bucer, de Camerarius, de Calvin et de nombreux autres personnages importants. En appendice, on trouve le texte intégral de sa correspondance, ainsi que celui de sa production littéraire.

Author : Gideon Manning,Cynthia Klestinec
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319565149

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Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine by Gideon Manning,Cynthia Klestinec Pdf

This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had on a range of fields. Contributions address several topics ranging from the medical provenance of biblical commentary to the early modern emergence of pathological medicine. Along the way, readers may learn of the purchasing habits of physician-book collectors, the writing of history and the development of natural history. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Siraisi, this volume attests to the enduring value of her scholarship while also highlighting critical areas of future research. Those with an interest in the history of science, the history of medicine and all related fields will find this work a stimulating and rewarding read.

Author : Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero,Emanuela Scribano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030863081

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Galen and the Early Moderns by Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero,Emanuela Scribano Pdf

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short revival due to the humanistic rediscovery of his works, the influence of the great ancient physician on Western thought seemed to decline rapidly as new discoveries made his anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics more and more obsolete. In fact, even though Galenism was gradually dismissed as a system, several of his ideas spread through the modern world and left their mark on natural philosophy, rational theology, teleology, physiology, biology, botany, and the philosophy of medicine. Without Galen, none of these modern disciplines would have been the same. Linking Renaissance with the Enlightenment, the eleven chapters of this book offer a unique and detailed survey of both scientific and philosophical Galenisms from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Julius Caesar Scaliger, Giambattista Da Monte, Hyeronimus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Andrea Cesalpino, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, John Locke, Guillaume Lamy, Jean-Baptiste Verduc, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Denis Diderot, and Kurt Sprengel.

Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004172500

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Fatal Thirst by Elizabeth Lane Furdell Pdf

Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.

Author : Roger French,Jon Arrizabalaga,Andrew Cunningham,Luis Garcia-Ballester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429515019

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Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease by Roger French,Jon Arrizabalaga,Andrew Cunningham,Luis Garcia-Ballester Pdf

Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide.

Author : J. V. Field,Frank A. J. L. James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521627540

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Renaissance and Revolution by J. V. Field,Frank A. J. L. James Pdf

A collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Elsa García Novo
Publisher : Editorial Complutense
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788499380599

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Galen on The Anomalous Dyskrasia (De Inaequali Intemperie) by Elsa García Novo Pdf

By means of compositional devices and a masterful use of Greek language that the author adapts to the contents, Galen achieves an accurate and didactic exposition, which presents the vivacity of oral speech. Dealing with a humoral unbalance that is on the basis of many local and general affections inflammation and fevers among them , this small treatise also includes key notions of Anatomy and Physiology. On those grounds it became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 to 1567). This first critical edition presents a continuous text no chapters and points to the internal structure created by the author in order to make his text readily accessible and unforgettable. A thorough Introduction the textual transmission, the fundamental topics , is coupled by an ample Commentary that deals with alteration and pain, qualities and humours, no less than with scribal errors and grammatical explanations.

Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000061604

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Galen by Vivian Nutton Pdf

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.

Author : Galen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Rebecca Flemming,Laurence Totelin
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589908

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Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond by Rebecca Flemming,Laurence Totelin Pdf

For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages.

Author : Julius Rocca
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789047401438

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Galen on the Brain by Julius Rocca Pdf

Galen's account of the brain is arguably one of the best examples of the apogee of Greek anatomical science, and is an intellectual achievement unmatched until Vesalius. This study provides a detailed and critical examination of Galen's anatomy and physiology of the brain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medicine
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015984844

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Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Isla Fay
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153604

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Health and the City by Isla Fay Pdf

An exploration of the health, sanitation, and cleanliness of one of England's most important medieval and early modern cities.