- Additional Authors
- Brock, Arthur John
- Series Statement
- Loeb Classical Library 71
- Uniform Title
- Loeb Classical Library 71.
- De naturalibus facultatibus. English & Greek (Online)
- Alternative Title
- De naturalibus facultatibus.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography, index, and glossary.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Language (note)
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC
- ssj0001418300
- Author
Galen.
- Title
On the natural faculties [electronic resource] / Galen ; with an English translation by A.J. Brock.
- Imprint
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Description
1 online resource.
- Series
Loeb Classical Library 71
Loeb Classical Library 71.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliography, index, and glossary.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
Galen (129-199 CE) crystallized all the best work of the Greek medical schools which had preceded his own time, including Hippocrates' foundational work six hundred years earlier. It is in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to later ages. If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was reared, then the work of Galen, who lived some six hundred years later, may be looked upon as the summit of the same edifice. He was born in Pergamum 129 CE, and both there and in other academic centres of the Aegean pursued his medical studies before being appointed physician to the Pergamene gladiators in 157. Becoming dissatisfied with this type of practice he emigrated to Rome, where he soon won acknowledgement as the foremost medical authority of his time and where, with one brief interruption, he remained until his death in 199. Galen's merit is to have crystallised or brought to a focus all the best work of the Greek medical schools which had preceded his own time. It is essentially in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to after ages.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Language
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Brock, Arthur John.
- Other Form:
Print version: Galen. On the natural faculties. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1916 9780674990784