Alphabet of Galen Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Name: Alphabet of Galen Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780802095503

ISBN-10: 080209550X

ISBN-13: 9780802095503

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nicholas Everett

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The Alphabet of Galenis a critical edition and English translation of a textdescribing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural products - includingmetals, aromatics, animal materials, and herbs - and their medicinal uses. A Latintranslation of earlier Greek writings on pharmacy that have not survived, it circulatedamong collections of 'authorities' on medicine, including Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamun,Soranus, and Ps. Apuleius.This work presents interesting linguistic features,including otherwise unattested Greek and Latin technical terms and unique pharmacologicaldescriptions. Nicholas Everett provides a window onto the medieval translation of ancientscience and medieval…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 5/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.01" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Nicholas Everett is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.



List of Plates


Acknowledgments


Signs, Symbols, and Abbreviations


The Identification of Plants


Warning



Introduction to the Alphabet of Galen



Introduction



Character of the AG and Its Date of Composition



The History of the AG



The Prologue and Epilogue



The Liber de dynamidiis



A Road through Ravenna?



Self-Medicating in Late Antiquity



Evaluating the .AG's Pharmacy



Evaluating the AG's Botany



Conclusion



Pharmacology



Introduction



Natural Products and Pharmacy



Sensory Perception



Drug 'Properties'



Four Main Properties, Implicit Theory, and Greek Cosmology



Uis vs uirtus



Humour, Bile, and Phlegm



Explicit Theorizing in the AG



The 'Doctrine of Signatures' and the Absence of Magic in the AG



Non-Medical Uses



Conclusion



Sources Compared and Lost



Introduction



Dioscorides



Pliny



Sextius Niger: The Possibility



Other Lost Sources BC to AD



Two Linguistic Echoes: The Diaeta Theodori and Ps. Apuleius



Conclusion



The Comparanda: An apparatus comparationum



Language, Latinity, and Translation



Introduction: Language and Dating the AG



Grammar



Vocabulary



Uiscidus and uiscide



The -aster / -astrum Suffix



Greek in the AG



Conclusion



Difficulties of Terminology and Translation



Neologisms and Rare Words



Manuscripts



Overview and Editorial Principles



Variants



Manuscripts



The Editio princeps


Alphabetum Galieni (Latin Text) / The Alphabet of Galen (English translation)


Bibliography


Index



Plants and Plant Products



Minerals and Mineral Products



Animals and Animal Products



Places and Place-Names



Medical



General



Interesting or Rare Words (see also ch. 4.I)



Materia medica (General)