Galen on the Pulses

Ian Johnston; Niki Papavramidou

Ahead of Publication Published by De Gruyter 2023

Galen on the Pulses

Four short treatises and four long treatises

Ian Johnston

and Niki Papavramidou

Volume 10 in the series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean

Overview

About this book

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.

Author information

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

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Doctors, medical historians and classicists.
Pages
- Main content: 573
Keywords: Galen; World Medicine; History of Medicine

eBook

Planned Publication: November 13, 2023
ISBN: 9783110612677

Hardcover

Planned Publication: November 13, 2023
ISBN: 9783110611618