Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 41.5

GALENUS (ca. 130-ca. 200) Epitome Galeni Pergameni operum : in quatuor partes digesta, pulcherrima methodo vniversam illius viri doctrinam complectens / per Do. And. Lacunam Secobiensem ... summa fide studióque collecta ; accesserunt eiusdem And. Lacunae Annotationes in Galeni interpretes ; quibus varij loci, in quos hactenus impegerunt lectores, & explicantur & summa fide restiuuntur ; item, De ponderibus & mensuris medicinalibus vtilis commentarius ; index rerum & verborum maximè memorabilium copiosissimus. Per Thomam Guarinum. 1571 [Second] [8], 1298, [141] p. : ill. 31 cm.

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

[Galen is indexed in Heirs, NLM, and Waller under the Latinized “Galenus”.] This epitome of Galen’s works was prepared by the Spanish physician Andres de Laguna, and includes his “Annotationes”. “If the work of Hippocrates can be taken as representing the foundation of Greek medicine, then the work of Galen – who lived 6 centuries later – is the apex of that tradition. Galen crystallized all the best work of the Greek medical schools which had preceded his own time. It is essentially in the form of Galenism that Greek medicine was transmitted to the Renaissance scholars.” (EB)

Cited references: NLM 16th c. #1843; Choulant-Frank p.380.

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