"Diet for an Emperor" presents the first translation into English of Books 1 and 4 of the "Medical Compilations" of Oribasius, together with a commentary assessing the medical theories behind this invaluable source of information on food ...
The commentary indicates Oribasius' source for each quotation or paraphrase, assesses the accuracy and comprehensibility of the contents, and suggests the reasons behind the recommendations and rejections of certain cakes, breads, fruits ...
This edition of the Stephanus Commentary on Galen's "Therapeutics to Glaucon" sheds important light on the nature and extent of medical education in the West on the eve of the Arab conquest.
Unlike much previous scholarship, however, this book does not dismiss de Arte as “merely” rhetorical.
This edition of the Stephanus Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon sheds important light on the nature and extent of medical education in the West on the eve of the Arab conquest.
Bringing together the extant classical and principal Islamic biographies of Hippocrates, translated here for the first time, J.R. Pinault focuses on the processes of biographical fiction that shaped the Hippocratic legends from their ...
This book presents a new edition, with translation, introduction and commentary, of two short medical texts, both transmitted in the Hippocratic Corpus but surely neither by the historical Hippocrates.
The "Therapeutics" of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary.
This work studies the vocabulary of Galen, a physician in the 2nd century A.D., as culled from his voluminous works. It covers a wide field in diet, drugs and surgery. It is essential for the study of medical Greek.
This work studies the vocabulary of Galen, a physician in the 2nd century A.D., as culled from his voluminous works. It covers a wide field in diet, drugs and surgery. It is essential for the study of medical Greek.