Galen

Galen

earliest edition we have, 2003 Cambridge University Press, 2003 hardcover 232 pages

This book presents a translation of and detailed commentary on Galen's De alimentorum facultatibus - his major work on the dynamics and kinetics of various foods. It is thus primarily a physiological treatise rather than a materia medica or a work on pathology. Galen commences with a short section on the epistemology of medicine, with a discussion on the attainment, through apodeixis or demonstration, of scientific t...

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Galen paperback · 2007 · Cambridge University Press · 232 pages · 9780521036207
Galen hardcover · 2006 · Cambridge University Press · 344 pages · 9780521865883
Galen paperback · 2004 · Cambridge University Press · 365 pages · 9780521607131
Galen hardcover · 2003 · Cambridge University Press · 232 pages · 9780521812429
Galen edition · 2003 · Cambridge University Press

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