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Galen : On Respiration and the Arteries /

Professors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of four of Galen's physiological treatises on respiration and the arteries. Their text is the first to make use of Arabic translations of An in arteriis and De usu pulsuum bas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Furley, David J. (Autor), Wilkie, James S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 118
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. Theories of Respiration Before Galen
  • II. Galen and the Later History of Theories of the Heart, Lungs, and Vessels
  • III. Galen's Experiments and the Origin of the Experimental Method
  • IV. "Use" and "Activity"
  • De Usu Respirationis
  • An in Arteriis Natura Sanguis Contineatur
  • De Usu Pulsuum
  • De Causis Respirationis
  • Notes to Translations
  • Bibliography
  • Index Nominum
  • Index of Passages Cited in Introduction and Commentary