Galen on Anatomical Procedures The Later Books [Paperback]

This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 1015.Galens 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. This edition offers parts of book 9 and books 1015, translated from an Arabic manuscript of the complete work.Galens 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. This edition offers parts of book 9 and books 1015, translated from an Arabic manuscript of the complete work.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 1015). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.Introduction; Note on the method of publication; 9. On the brain; 10; The face, mouth and pharynx; 11. The larynx and associated structures; 12. The generative organs and foetal development; 13. On the veins and arteries; 14. The cranial nerves; 15. The spinal nerves; Index.