Galen on Anatomical Procedures
The Later Books

This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10–15.

Galen (Author), Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (Translated by), M.C. Lyons (Edited by), B. Towers (Edited by)

9781108009447, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 March 2010

304 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10–15). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.

Introduction
Note on the method of publication
9. On the brain
10
The face, mouth and pharynx
11. The larynx and associated structures
12. The generative organs and foetal development
13. On the veins and arteries
14. The cranial nerves
15. The spinal nerves
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]