Chapter 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature

• Tác giả: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004302211
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 610.938 Medicine and health
• Thông tin xuất bản: Brill, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (25 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 224830
• Chủ đề: 1. History of medicine

Tóm tắt

 This chapter explores the various ways in which Galen was revived in the works of Byzantine medical authors by concentrating on literary output from the seventh/eighth century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. It is divided into three sections. The first focuses on texts dealing with Christian anthropology
  next is the section which groups texts offering practical instructions in diagnostics and therapeutics
  the last section deals with three exceptional cases deemed worthy of being treated separately.