Selected Works

by Galen

Galen (AD 129-99), researcher and scholar, surgeon and philosopher, logician, herbalist and personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and multi-faceted medical author of antiquity. This is the first major selection in English of Galen's work, functioning as an essential introduction to his "medical philosophy" and including the first-ever translations of several major works. A detailed Introduction presents a vivid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192839373
• ISBN13: 9780192839374
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 5.1"