Galen on Anatomical Procedures : The Later Books Paperback / softback
by Galen
Edited by M. C. Lyons, B. Towers
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers.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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2010
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- ISBN:9781108009447
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2010
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- ISBN:9781108009447
