Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (de Temperamentis) P. N. Singer

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

Author: P. N. Singer
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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (de Temperamentis)
Author
P. N. Singer
ISBN
9781009382540
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: P. N. SingerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/06/2023ISBN: 9781009382540Pages: 287Weight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: P. N. Singer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/06/2023
ISBN: 9781009382540
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: P. N. Singer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/06/2023
ISBN: 9781009382540
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d