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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Hardcover)
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Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Hardcover)
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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