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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139149969
Serie:
Cambridge Galen translations
Originaltitel:
De temperamentis
Inhalt:
Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107023147
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Galenus, 129 - 199 Galen ; Volume 1: Mixtures (De Temperamentis) Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107023147
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Galenus 129-199 De temperamentis
DOI:
10.1017/9781139149969
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Mehr zum Autor:
Eijk, Philip J. van der 1962-
Mehr zum Autor:
Galenus 129-199
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