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Hippocrates, Places in Man
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ISBN: 0198152272 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

Dieting for an Emperor : A Translation of Books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations
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ISBN: 9004107908 9004377425 Year: 1997 Volume: 15 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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The commentary indicates Oribasius' source for each quotation or paraphrase, assesses the accuracy and comprehensibility of the contents, and suggests the reasons behind the recommendations and rejections of certain cakes, breads, fruits and vegetables. To aid further research in the field of ancient dietetics, a detailed word index is appended. The introduction summarises the more important points about the medical theories behind the humours and qualities, and how regulating the intake of foods could assist in the maintenance of good health.

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia
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ISBN: 9004137572 9789004137578 904741389X Year: 2004 Volume: 29 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. It uses new manuscript evidence in order to explore the crucial impact of Paul's pragmateia , tracing its steps through different languages and cultures in the Middle East. A discussion of different Syriac and Arabic authors who quote the pragmateia such as Ibn Serapion and Rhazes is followed by detailed studies of Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation technique, examining, for instance, ophthalmologic terminology, and giving a critical appraisal of translation syntax and lexicography. Paul's influence on the development of medical theory in the Islamic world and beyond is also addressed, making it an important contribution not only to Graeco-Arabic studies, but also to the history of medicine in general.

On ancient medicine.
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ISBN: 9004137580 9786610859436 1429426934 9047405013 1280859431 1433703769 9781429426930 9789004137585 9780203490914 0203490916 9781433703768 9781280859434 6610859434 9789047405016 Year: 2005 Volume: 28 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine , a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical practice on principles drawn from natural philosophy. This volume presents an up-to-date Greek text of On Ancient Medicine , a new English translation, and a detailed commentary that focuses on questions of medical and scientific method; the introduction sets out a new approach to the problem of the work's relationship to its intellectual context and addresses the contentious issues of its date, authorship, and reception. The book will be of interest to scholars of ancient medicine and ancient philosophy, as well as anyone concerned with the history of science and scientific method in antiquity.

Pseudepigraphic writings : Letters; Embassy; Speech from the altar; Decree
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ISBN: 9004092900 9004377204 Year: 1990 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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The biography and personality of the 'Father of Medicine' were known to the world through these important, but little studied letters and speeches. W.D. Smith here presents them newly edited from the most important manuscripts, with a facing English translation, and offers an introduction that gives a literary analysis and places them in relation to ancient history and ancient medical science. The speeches appear to be early (III B.C.) propaganda for the Island Cos, whose presence in the Library at Alexandria contributed to the characterization of the Hippocratic Corpus, while the Democritus Letters belong to the Roman period, after the firm establishment of Hippocrates' reputation.

The elder Pliny on the human animal : Natural history, book 7
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ISBN: 0198150652 019927701X Year: 2005 Volume: *1 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,

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As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.

Diocles of Carystus : a collection of the fragments with translation and commentary
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ISBN: 9004120122 9004102655 9004120130 9004377506 9004377492 9789004120136 9789004120129 9789004102651 Year: 2000 Volume: 22, 23 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Diocles of Carystus (4th century BCE), also known as 'the younger Hippocrates', was one of the most prominent medical authorities in antiquity. He wrote extensively on a wide range of areas such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, embryology, gynaecology, dietetics, foods and poisons. In his writings, he betrays strong philosophical influence, and his views present striking connections with the Hippocratic Corpus, Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus. The study of Diocles' ideas has long been hampered by the absence of a reliable collection of the remaining evidence. This book presents and discusses all the fragments and testimonies to Diocles' views. The first volume presents the Greek, Latin and Arabic sources with facing English translation. The second volume (publication April 2001) provides a commentary on the fragments and places them in their intellectual context.

Medicine and philosophy in classical antiquity : doctors and philosophers on nature, soul, health and disease
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ISBN: 0521818001 0521142970 9786610434466 0511181337 0511197977 0511113293 0511326750 0511482671 1280434465 0511112785 1107135168 9780521818001 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly, philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for their contributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly striking in the study of the human soul in its relation to the body, as illustrated by approaches to specific topics such as intellect, sleep and dreams, and diet and drugs. With a detailed introduction surveying the subject as a whole and an essay on Aristotle's treatment of sleep, this wide-ranging and accessible collection is essential reading for the student of ancient philosophy and science.

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