Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms (Hardcover)

Part I. Introduction: 1. General introduction; 2. Galen's life and works; 3. Galen's philosophical and medical antecedents; 4. Definitions and terminology: i. Definitions; ii. Causal terms; iii. General terms; iv. Diseases and symptoms; v. Conclusions; 5. The classification of diseases and symptoms: i. Introduction; ii. Diseases (de morborum differentiis); iii. Symptoms (de symptomatum differentiis); iv. Conclusions; 6. Causation in diseases and symptoms: i. Introduction; ii. Theories of disease causation prior to Galen; iii. Galen on causation; iv. Conclusions; Part II. Translation: Introduction; 1. On the differentiae of diseases; 2. On the causes of diseases; 3. On the differentiae of symptoms; 4. On the causes of symptoms I; 5. On the causes of symptoms II; 6. On the causes of symptoms III; Part III. Conclusions; Bibliography.