Galen: Works on Human Nature

P. N. Singer; Philip J. van der Eijk; Piero Tassinari

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Volume 1: Mixtures (De Temperamentis)
Edited and translated by P. N. Singer, Birkbeck, University of London, Philip J. van der Eijk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Assisted by Piero Tassinari, Cardiff University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2018
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781139149969
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139149969

Subjects:: Classical Studies, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Medicine
Series:: Cambridge Galen Translations

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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.

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Galen: Works on Human Nature
pp i-ii

Cambridge Galen Translations - Series page
pp iii-iv

Galen: Works on Human Nature - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of illustrations
pp viii-viii

Series editor’s preface
pp ix-xii

Preface and acknowledgements
pp xiii-xv

Note on citations and abbreviations
pp xvi-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-46

Mixtures*
pp 47-184

Book I
pp 49-102

Book II
pp 103-153

Book III
pp 154-184

List of departures from Helmreich’s edition
pp 185-185

List of titles and abbreviations of Galen’s works
pp 186-199

Bibliography
pp 200-221

English–Greek glossary
pp 222-231

Greek word index
pp 232-242

Index of names
pp 243-243

Index of passages cited
pp 244-259

General index
pp 260-270

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