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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...

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Main Author: Galen.
Contributors: Singer, P. N. 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series:World's classics
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505 0 |a My own books -- The order of my own books -- The best doctor is also a philosopher -- An exhortation to study the arts -- To Thrasyboulos: Is healthiness a part of medicine or of gymnastics? -- The affections and errors of the soul -- The soul's dependence on the body -- The construction of the embryo -- Mixtures, Book I, Book II, Book III -- The best constitution of our bodies -- Good condition -- The exercise with the small ball -- The thinning diet -- The pulse for beginners -- The art of medicine. 
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