(Ebook) The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Nicholas Everett ISBN 9780802095503, 080209550X

(Ebook) The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Nicholas Everett ISBN 9780802095503, 080209550X

The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural products - including metals, aromatics, animal materials, and herbs - and their medicinal uses. A Latin translation of earlier Greek writings on pharmacy that have not survived, it circulated among 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 pharmacological descriptions. Nicholas Everett provides a window onto the medieval translation of ancientscience and medieval conceptions of pharmacy. With a comprehensive scholarly apparatusand a contextual introduction, The Alphabet of Galen is a major resource forunderstanding the richness and diversity of medical history.