Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 361

HENRI ESTIENNE (1531-1598) Dictionarium medicum. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1564 608 [28] pp. 16.8 cm.

Henri Estienne, of the famous French family of printers and scholars, was an accomplished writer and made important contributions to the study of both the French and Greek languages and literature. His Thesaurus graecae linguae has been a major source for the study of Greek since it appeared in 1572 and his Plato was a landmark work and is still used by classicists today. This medical dictionary was a significant achievement of Renaissance printing and Estienne's classical scholarship. It influenced Renaissance anatomical terminology because many anatomical terms were defined here for the first time. The central portion of the dictionary, arranged alphabetically, is taken from the works of Hippocrates, Aretaeus, Galen, Oribasius, Rufus of Ephesus, Aëtius of Amida, Alexander Trallianus, Paulus Aegineta, Actuarius, and Celsus and is followed by excerpts in Greek with Latin translations or definitions from Galen, Rufus of Ephesus, and Pollux. Also included are Erotianus' Greek text of Lexicon in Hippocratem with annotations by Estienne and Gesner (see No. 307 ff.); the Greek text of Galen's Linguarum . . . Hippocratis explicatio; and selections in Greek from the Lexicon Herodoteum and from the De dialectis by Gregorius, Metropolitan of Corinth; and extracts from various writings of Galen.

See Related Record(s): 307

Cited references: Cushing E100; Durling 1402; Garrison-Morton 6791; Osler 7028; Waller 2822; Wellcome 6084

Gift of John Martin, M.D.