1565 RENAISSANCE EDITION OF GALEN antique FOLIO 16th century FAMOUS MEDICAL WORK

CLAUDIUS GALENUS

Galeni ascripti Libri qui variam Artis Medicae

Venice, published by Giunti, 1565

The works attributed to Galen, the famous Roman physician, including various medical and pharmaceutical texts. 

Rare and fine collection of medical and pharmaceutical works attributed to the renowned Roman physician, one of the giants of Western medicine.
The volume includes several brief Galenic studies on various topics, such as De Partibus sui, De Anatomia Vivorum, De Spermate on semen, De Vinis on wine, De Simplicibus Medicamentis on the pharmacological use of various plants, De Anatomia Oculorum on ophthalmology, and De Utilitate Respirationes on respiration.
Additionally, there is a collection of medicinal recipes titled Liber Secretorum.
Lastly, Prognostica ex Mathematica Scientia, in which astrology is claimed to be useful in medicine, sharing an interest in astrology.

Re-bound in half leather over cardboard. New endpapers.

 Stunning full-page engraved title page with eight medical-themed vignette engravings.

The title is centered and decorated with the mark of the famous Venetian printers.

Printer's mark repeated at the end.

117 leaves

Occasional toning, spots to some leaves at the end

Folio:  10 by 13.5"

Text in Latin

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LUCANTONIO GIUNTI (1457 -1538) was a Florentine book publisher and printer, active in Venice from 1489, a member of the Giunti family of printers. His publishing business was successful, and among the most important in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Some thirty members of the family became printers or booksellers. In Venice the Giunti press was the most active publisher and exporter of liturgical texts in Catholic Europe.
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GALEN [Galen of Pergamon] (129 - circa 216) was a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. Galen may have produced more work than any author in antiquity. So profuse was Galen's output that the surviving texts represent nearly half of all the extant literature from ancient Greece. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism (also known as the theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm), as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. Galen's views dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. His anatomical reports remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published by Andreas Vesalius. Galen's original Greek texts gained renewed prominence during the early modern period. In the 1530s, Belgian anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius took on a project to translate many of Galen's Greek texts into Latin. Vesalius's most famous work, De humani corporis fabrica, was greatly influenced by Galenic writing and form. Galen's writings were shown by Vesalius to describe details present in monkeys but not in humans, and he demonstrated Galen's limitations through books and hands-on demonstrations despite fierce opposition from orthodox pro-Galenists such as Jacobus Sylvius.

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