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The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

By Nicholas Everett

Book information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Year
2012
ISBN
0802098126, 9780802098122
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2878524 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual, Critical
Pages
480\476
Time added
2020-07-20 14:09:56

Description

The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural products - including metals, aromatics, animal materials, and herbs - and their medicinal uses. A Latin translation of earlier Greek writings on pharmacy that have not survived, it circulated among collections of 'authorities' on medicine, including Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamun, Soranus, and Ps. Apuleius. This work presents interesting linguistic features, including otherwise unattested Greek and Latin technical terms and unique pharmacological descriptions. Nicholas Everett provides a window onto the medieval translation of ancient science and medieval conceptions of pharmacy. With a comprehensive scholarly apparatus and a contextual introduction, The Alphabet of Galen is a major resource for understanding the richness and diversity of medical history. Cover Contents List of Plates Acknowledgments Signs, Symbols, and Abbreviations The Identification of Plants Warning 1 Introduction to the Alphabet of Galen A: Introduction B: Character of the AG and its Date of Composition C: The History of the AG D: The Prologue and Epilogue E: The Liber de dynamidiis F: A Road through Ravenna? G: Self-Medicating in Late Antiquity H: Evaluating the AG’s Pharmacy I: Evaluating the AG’s Botany J: Conclusion 2 Pharmacology A: Introduction B Natural Products and Pharmacy C: Sensory Perception D: Drug ‘Properties’ E: Four Main Properties, Implicit Theory, and Greek Cosmology F: Uis vs uirtus G: Humour, Bile, and Phlegm H: Explicit Theorizing in the AG I: The ‘Doctrine of Signatures’ and the Absence of Magic in the AG J: Non-Medical Uses K: Conclusion 3 Sources Compared and Lost A: Introduction B: Dioscorides C: Pliny D: Sextius Niger: The Possibility E: Other Lost Sources BC to AD F: Two Linguistic Echoes: The Diaeta Theodori and Ps. Apuleius G: Conclusion H: The Comparanda: An apparatus comparationum 4 Language, Latinity, and Translation A: Introduction: Language and Dating the AG B: Grammar C: Vocabulary D: Uiscidus and uiscide E: The -aster / -astrum Suffix F: Greek in the AG G: Conclusion H: Difficulties of Terminology and Translation I: Neologisms and Rare Words 5 Manuscripts A: Overview and Editorial Principles B: Variants C: Manuscripts D: The Editio princeps Alphabetum Galieni (Latin Text) / The Alphabet of Galen (English translation) Bibliography Index A: Plants and Plant Products A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y B: Minerals and Mineral Products A B C D E F G H L M N P Q R S T V Y Z C: Animals and Animal Products A B C D E F G H P R S W D: Places and Place-Names A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T E: Medical A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W F: General A B C D E F G H I K L M O P Q R S T V W G: Interesting or Rare Words (see also ch. 4.I) A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U H: Materia medica (General) A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T V W X Z

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