Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance by Montserrat Cabré, Luis García-Ballester, Jon Arrizabalaga

Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance

Variorum Collected Studies

Montserrat Cabré, Luis García-Ballester, Jon Arrizabalaga

332 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative medium-paced

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Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Deriving from the medical and philosophical views of Ga...

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