TY - BOOK AU - Johnston,Ian Hugh AU - Papavramidou,Niki TI - Galen on the Pulses: Medico-historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation T2 - Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean , SN - 9783110611618 AV - R126 .G35 2024eb U1 - 610.938 PY - 2023///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Medicine KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman KW - Physiology KW - Pulse KW - Galen KW - Griechische Medizin KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh KW - History of Medicine KW - World Medicine N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612677 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110612677 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110612677/original ER -