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Galen on the Pulses: Medico-Historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation

Galen on the Pulses: Medico-Historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation

Johnston, Ian Hugh
Papavramidou, Niki

Hardcover

Series: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean, Book 10

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Science

ISBN10: 3110611619
ISBN13: 9783110611618
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Nov 20 2023
Pages: 566
Weight: 2.42
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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.

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