Galen: On Respiration and the Arteries

by James S. Wilkie and David J. Furley

Book Overview

Professors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of four of Galen's physiological treatises on respiration and the arteries. Their text is the first to make use of Arabic translations of An in arteriis and De usu pulsuum based on a Greek text that is earlier and better than the surviving tines. These translations have enabled them to make substantial improvements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691612544
• ISBN13: 9780691612546
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"