Galen on the Pulses : : Medico-historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation / / Ian Hugh Johnston, Niki Papavramidou.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 555 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Schemas and Tables
  • Part One: Medico-historical Analysis and Textual Tradition
  • I Introduction
  • II Medico-historical Analysis
  • III Textual Tradition
  • Part Two: Translation
  • I Introduction
  • II The Short Treatises
  • III On the Differentiae of the Pulses (De pulsuum differentiis, libri IV VIII.493–765K)
  • IV On the Diagnosis of the Pulses (De dignoscendis pulsibus, libri IV VIII.766–961K)
  • V On the Causes of the Pulses (De causis pulsuum, libri IV IX.1–204K)
  • VI On Prognosis from the Pulses (De praesagitione ex pulsibus, libri IV IX.205–430K)
  • Part Three: Appendices
  • I Lexica
  • II Bibliography
  • Indexes