Abstract:Pharmacology constitutes a huge and significantly under-researched part of Galen’s work, representing roughly one-seventh of his enormous written output. It also accounts for a major part of his significance and influence in later centuries, in many periods and socio-medical contexts and through a wide variety of pathways of transmission. The aim of the present chapter is threefold. First, it gives a theoretical overview, looking at the nature and scope of Galen’s pharmacological texts and at the theory that t… Show more
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