Johnston / Papavramidou Galen on the Pulses

Medico-historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-061267-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 566 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean

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.

I. Johnston, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and N. Papavramidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Zielgruppe

Doctors, medical historians and classicists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Ian Hugh

Papavramidou, Niki

Über Autor(innen)

I. Johnston, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and N. Papavramidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.