On the Natural Faculties Contributor(s): Galen (Author), Brock, A. J. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0674990781 ISBN-13: 9780674990784 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Published: January 1916 Annotation: 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 AD 129, 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. |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
Dewey: 888 |
Lexile Measure: 1470 |
Series: Loeb Classical Library |
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 4.63" W x 6.67" (0.60 lbs) 400 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brock, A. J.: - Arthur John Brock (1879-1947) was a clinician and medical historian practicing in Edinburgh. |