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Ancients and moderns in the medical sciences : from Hippocrates to Harvey / Roger French.

Author/creator French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 2000.
Description1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Variorum collected studies series ; CS685
Collected studies CS685. ^A355371
Contents Ch. I. Greek fragments of the lost books of Galen's anatomical procedures -- Ch. II. De Juvamentis Memborum and the reception of Galenic physiological anatomy -- Ch. III. An origin for the bone text of the 'five-figure series' -- Ch. IV. A note on the anatomical accessus of the Middle Ages -- Ch. V. Fortelling the future: Arabic astrology and English medicine in the late twelfth century -- Ch. VI. Astrology in medical practice -- Ch. VII. The use of Alfred of Shareshill's commentary on De Plantis in university teaching in the thirteenth century -- Ch. VIII. Gentile da Foligno and the via medicorum -- Ch. IX. The medical ethics of Gabriel de Zerbi -- Ch. X. Berengario da Carpi and the use of commentary in anatomical teaching -- Ch. XI. Pliny and Renaissance medicine -- Ch. XII. The languages of William Harvey's natural philosophy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 00100177
ISBN0860788342
ISBN9780860788348

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