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Record Nr.

UNISA996208471803316

Autore

Galen

Titolo

On the natural faculties / / Galen ; with an English translation by A.J. Brock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Loeb Classical Library ; ; 71

Soggetti

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Physiology

Medicine, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography, index, and glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

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.