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Galen on Anatomical Procedures: The Later Books

By Galen , M.C. Lyons , B. Towers (editors) , Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (translator)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511707377, 9781108009447
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511707377
Google Books ID
OvJgbFMv1oYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3866242 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Edition
1
Pages
304\304
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10-15). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.

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