Of the works of the Greek physician Galen of Pergamon (129-216 AD), the commentary on the Hippocratic treatise "On the Environment" (De aere aquis locis) has only survived in a Christian-Arabic translation. The first edition is provided with a German translation and explanatory notes on astronomy and philosophy, geography, mineral springs and Roman rule. Link to the publisher's homepage here.
A considerable number of ancient medical texts has not been yet edited drawing on the whole manuscript tradition. This is also the case of the treatise On Affections, a medical book traditionally transmitted as a part of the Hippocratic Corpus. This volume offers the first critical edition of On Affections that considers the whole manuscript and printed tradition. It also includes an exhaustive account of the history of the text, a translation into English and a commentary. On Affections is unique among the Hippocratic writings in that it presents itself as a medical handbook for intelligent lay readers and not for physicians. The book includes a systematic discussion of diseases, and has clear affinities with other Hippocratic texts. Furthermore, it also contains a catalogue of foods and their properties, the combination of these two topics being unparalleled in the rest of the extant treatises. Link to the publisher's homepage here.
The collection of medical definitions from the late first or early second century AD, which has come down to us under the name of Galen, was last published in 1830 in the complete edition of Galen's works by C. G. Kühn, who essentially only printed Chartier's text from 1679 for it. Based on a meticulous reappraisal of the manuscript tradition, the edition presented here offers for the first time a scholarly text that undergoes significant changes compared to the previous edition, both in the arrangement of the definitions and in its inventory. A German translation - also the first of this text - makes the collection available to a wider readership. Extensive indices complete the volume. Link to the publisher's homepage here.
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Galen of Pergamum. The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
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