ISBN: 9780521320856 - galen on bloodletting: a study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works (6 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 189 pages ; 24 cm. For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr. Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xiii, 189 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). The three translated works are: Galen's Book on Venesection against Erasistratus; Galen's Book on Venesection against the Erasistrateans in Rome; Galen's Book on Treatment by Venesection.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 202 pages; For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. After a brief summary of Galen's medical system, the author goes on to consider the origins of Galen's ideas and methods, with particular reference to the Hippocratic writings, and the question why Galen, in common with most of the ancient physicians, believed in the efficacy of the comedy. The effects of bloodletting are considered in terms of modem physiology and medicine, and the possibility is explored that it may indeed have been beneficial in the conditions prevailing in Galen's time.…