Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 April 2023
- ISBN 9781009382540
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 228x151x17 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illus. 443
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Short description:
Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.
MoreLong description:
Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; Mixtures: Book One; Book Two; Book Three; List of textual departures from Helmreich's edition; List of titles and abbreviations of Galen's works.
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