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Author(s): Nicholas Everett
ISBN(s): 9780802095503, 080209550X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  080209550X

ISBN 13:  978-0802095503 

Author: Nicholas Everett

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 ancient

science and medieval conceptions of pharmacy. With a comprehensive scholarly apparatus

and a contextual introduction, The Alphabet of Galen is a major resource for

understanding the richness and diversity of medical history.

Table of contents: 

  1. Acknowledgements

  2. List of Plates

  3. The Identification of Plants

Chapter I. Introduction to the Alphabet of Galen

  1. Introduction

  2. Character of the AG and its Date of Composition

  3. The (Recorded) History of the AG

  4. The Prologue and Epilogue

  5. The Liber de dynamidiis

  6. A Road through Ravenna?

  7. Self-medicating in Late Antiquity

  8. Evaluating the AG’s Pharmacy

  9. Evaluating the AG’s Botany

  10. Conclusion

Chapter II. Pharmacology

  1. Introduction

  2. Natural Products and Pharmacy

  3. Sensory Perception

  4. Drug Properties

  5. Four Main Properties and Greek Cosmology

  6. Uis vs. uirtus

  7. Humour, Bile and Phlegm

  8. Explicit Theorising in the AG

  9. Doctrine of Signatures and the Absence of Magic

  10. Non-medical Uses

  11. Conclusion

Chapter III. Sources Compared and Lost

  1. Introduction

  2. Dioscorides

  3. Pliny

  4. Sextius Niger: The Possibility

  5. Other Lost Sources B.C. to A.D.

  6. Two Linguistic Echoes: the Diaeta Theodori and Ps. Apuleius

  7. Conclusion

  8. The Comparanda

Chapter IV. Language, Latinity and Translation

  1. Introduction: Language and Dating the AG

  2. Grammar

  3. Vocabulary

  4. Uiscidus and uiscide

  5. The -aster / -astrum Suffix

  6. Greek in the AG

  7. Conclusion

  8. Difficulties of Terminology and Translation

  9. Neologisms and Rare Words

Chapter V. Manuscripts

  1. Overview and Editorial Principles

  2. Variants

  3. Manuscripts

  4. The Editio princeps (J)

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

Bibliography

  1. Ancient and Medieval Sources

  2. Modern Studies

Index

  1. Plants and Plant Products

  2. Minerals and Mineral Products

  3. Animals and Animal Products

  4. Place-names

  5. Medical

  6. General

  7. Interesting or Rare Words (see also Ch. IV.I)

  8. Materia Medica (General)

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