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Aug 18, 2022 · Galen : selected works. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Apr 18, 2020 · Method of Medicine, a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Galen's greatest and most influential works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections. The Loeb Method of medicine is in three ...
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The article examines the transmission and contents of two pseudogalenic works on drugs, the three-hundred descriptions of simples in the Ad Paternianum or The Alphabet of Galen (preserved only in Latin), and On substitute drugs (in the late-antique Latin translation). Download Free PDF. View PDF.
- Caroline Petit
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman an- tiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD.
Instead of merely describing simples, as many of his predecessors and followers did, Galen devoted five books out of eleven to defining the correct method in using drugs.
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In On My Own Books, Galen explains how many of his works circulated beyond his control, or circulated among those for whom it was not meant, and how he attempted to produce offi cial versions of his many works.
