Galen on anatomical procedures
Subtitle: Peri anatomikōn encheirēseōn = De anatomicis administrationibus
By: translation of the surviving books with introd. and notes by Charles Singer
Contributors: Singer, Charles, 1876-1960
Edition: Special ed. for Sandpiper books.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780585304809
Subjects: Anatomy; Early works to 1800; History; Dissection; Ancient History; Animal Structures; Anatomie; Ouvrages avant 1800; Histoire; MEDICAL; Physiology; SCIENCE; Life Sciences; Human Anatomy & Physiology
Other titles: Peri anatomikōn encheirēseōn
Work titles: De anatomicis administrationibus. Liber I-IX
Description: Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10-15). --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index.