Book ID: CBB258956103

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (2019)

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Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.

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Review Caroline Petit (2020) Review of "Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 867-869). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lorusso, Vito
Wilkins, John
Iorio, Silvia
Stewart, Keith
Wee, John Zhu-En
Walker, Katherine A.
Concepts
Medicine
Humoralism
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Hippocratic medicine
Human body
Diagnosis
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century
19th century
Places
Greece
Italy
Rome (Italy)
Padua (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
Byzantium
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