Galen on Bloodletting: A Study of the Origins, Development and Validity of his Opinions, with a Translation of the Three Works

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1986

0521320852 / 9780521320856

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Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 189 pages ; 24 cm. For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr. Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).

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Title
Galen on Bloodletting: A Study of the Origins, Development and Validity of his Opinions, with a Translation of the Three Works
Author
Brain, Peter
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication year
1986
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As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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0521320852
ISBN 13
9780521320856
Item weight
15 ounces
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6x0x9
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