Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 39

GALENUS (ca. 130-ca. 200) De sanitate tuenda libri sex interprete Thoma Linacro Anglo. In aedib. Eucharius Colon. 1526 [8] 427 pp. 15.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 36

The present treatise on hygiene was one of the first Galenic translations by Thomas Linacre (1461-1524), the well known medical humanist of the Renaissance. Linacre made many excellent translations of the Greek works of Galen as well as Aristotle and Hippocrates. The text of this work had been translated from Greek during the Middle Ages and a version of Burgundio of Pisa (ca. 1110-1193) had appeared in Galen's Opera of 1490. Burgundio worked from an incomplete and unreliable manuscript so Linacre's translation of all six books, which first appeared in 1517, was especially important and useful. At the end of the book is a very brief work by Paulus Aegineta (see No. 52 ff.) entitled De victus ratione quolibet anni tempore utili. This translation of a portion of the first book of Paulus' De re medica is the version of Gulielmus Copus (ca. 1460-1532).

See Related Record(s): 52

Cited references: Durling 1926 (1517 ed.); Garrison-Morton 1985 (Leipzig ed., 1832); Osler 374; Waller 3363; Wellcome 2612

Gift of John Martin, M.D.