Method of Medicine, Volume II: Books 5-9 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Galen and G.H. R. Horsley

Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.

Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized the entirety of Greek medicine as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674996798
• ISBN13: 9780674996793
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.5" x 6.5"