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On the Natural Faculties (Loeb Classical Library) (Hardcover)

by Galen (Author), A.J. Brock (Translator) "1. Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals, whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well, we may look on the..." (more)

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: LOEB (1 Jul 1989)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0674990781
ISBN-13: 978-0674990784
Product Dimensions: 16 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars An animated example of early medical thought, 20 April 2008

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Galen's (200 A.D.) view of medicine was based on that of his hero Hippocrates, and was the standard view of medicine until the 1530s, when Vesalius conducted his researches. Galen's emphasis on the importance of blood-letting in certain circumstances influenced medicine as late as the 1800s.

Much of this book is an animated (and by today's standards fairly vicious) attack on the alleged idiocy of those who held views different from his own; its value lies in the arguments Galen puts forward to combat those views, since these arguments explain his own theories, and even give some of the reasons for those theories, based on his extensive practical experience. For example, arguing against "atomic" theory (the classical version, not today's) in favour of continuous matter, Galen insists that the body actively converts food into bile and the like, against his opponents' view that these elemental parts are already present in the food itself, and the body simply separates them out. Similarly, opponents maintained that urine separated from blood because it was the thinner fluid, and was extracted through channels that blood was too thick to enter; Galen argues instead that the kidneys extract urine from the blood and pass it to the bladder, using an "attractive" faculty like that used by lodestone to attract metal.

An interesting read for those interested in the development, both of ideas in general, and medicine in particular.

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