Galen on the Pulses : Medico-Historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation / Ian Johnston and Niki Papavramidou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Ian, author.

Papavramidou, Niki, author.

Series:

Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 10.

Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean Series ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galen.

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Physiology--Early works to 1800.

Physiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

De Gruyter 2024

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only significant account of Western views surviving from ancient times. Not only does he set out his own views in great detail but he also gives a large amount of information on the views of others whose writings are lost. In the translated treatises in the present work, Galen deals with basic anatomy and physiology, classification of the types of pulses, diagnosis of and from the pulses, causal factors of clinical relevance and the very important matter of the prognostic value of the pulses. This is the first translation into a modern Western language of Galen's very substantial body of work on this subject.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Schemas and Tables

Part One: Medico-historical Analysis and Textual Tradition

I Introduction

II Medico-historical Analysis

III Textual Tradition

Part Two: Translation

II The Short Treatises

III On the Differentiae of the Pulses (De pulsuum differentiis, libri IV VIII.493-765K)

IV On the Diagnosis of the Pulses (De dignoscendis pulsibus, libri IV VIII.766-961K)

V On the Causes of the Pulses (De causis pulsuum, libri IV IX.1-204K)

VI On Prognosis from the Pulses (De praesagitione ex pulsibus, libri IV IX.205-430K)

Part Three: Appendices

I Lexica

II Bibliography

Indexes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Johnston, Ian Hugh Galen on the Pulses

ISBN:

3-11-061188-0

3-11-061267-4

9783110612677