Galen's Method Of Healing: Proceedings Of The 1982 Galen Symposium

Review 'This carefully edited volume represents an important step in the research of Galen's scientific and literary activity, and will prove an indispensable reference book to every researcher in the fields of ancient, Arab-Islamic, medieval European and Renaissance medicine.'István Ormos, Acta Orientalia, 1992/93. Product Description Edited by Fridolf Kudlien and Richard J. Durling, this book includes papers presented at the International Galen Symposium in Kiel on Galen's chief therapeutic manual, the Methodus medendi . Papers describe the composition of the book, its surgical content, its emphasis on logic, and its fortuna in medieval Islam and Renaissance Europe. For (post) graduates and scholars of classical medicine and philosophy, and history of science. First in the above noted series. Four of the 11 papers are in German. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.