Galen on The Anomalous Dyskrasia (De Inaequali Intemperie)

Galen on The Anomalous Dyskrasia (De Inaequali Intemperie)
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Publisher : Editorial Complutense
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9788499380599
ISBN-13 : 849938059X
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Download or read book Galen on The Anomalous Dyskrasia (De Inaequali Intemperie) written by Elsa García Novo and published by Editorial Complutense. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By means of compositional devices and a masterful use of Greek language that the author adapts to the contents, Galen achieves an accurate and didactic exposition, which presents the vivacity of oral speech. Dealing with a humoral unbalance that is on the basis of many local and general affections inflammation and fevers among them , this small treatise also includes key notions of Anatomy and Physiology. On those grounds it became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 to 1567). This first critical edition presents a continuous text no chapters and points to the internal structure created by the author in order to make his text readily accessible and unforgettable. A thorough Introduction the textual transmission, the fundamental topics , is coupled by an ample Commentary that deals with alteration and pain, qualities and humours, no less than with scribal errors and grammatical explanations.


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