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020 _z9780521320856 (hardback)
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050 0 0 _aR126.G8
_bB74 1986
082 0 0 _a615.8/99
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100 1 _aBrain, Peter,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGalen on bloodletting :
_ba study of the origins, development, and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works /
_cPeter Brain.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1986.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aGalen's book on venesection against Erasistratus -- Galen's book on venesection against the Erasistrateans in Rome -- Galen's book on treatment by venesection.
520 _aFor more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. After a brief summary of Galen's medical system, the author goes on to consider the origins of Galen's ideas and methods, with particular reference to the Hippocratic writings, and the question why Galen, in common with most of the ancient physicians, believed in the efficacy of the comedy. The effects of bloodletting are considered in terms of modem physiology and medicine, and the possibility is explored that it may indeed have been beneficial in the conditions prevailing in Galen's time.
600 0 0 _aGalen.
650 0 _aPhlebotomy
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aMedicine, Greek and Roman.
700 0 2 _aGalen.
_tWorks.
_kSelections.
_lEnglish.
_f1986.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521320856
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753565
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