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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (XI, 555 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110611618
  • 9783110611885
  • 9783110612677
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.938
LOC classification:
  • R126 .G35 2024eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- I Introduction -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- I Introduction -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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