Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia Kühn Paperback Cambridge University Press Volume 20

Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia\n\nThe still unrivalled 1821\u201333 edition of the complete works of Galen, the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world.\n\nKarl Gottlob K\u00FChn (Edited by)\n\n9781108028486 (SKU 3086954), Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 7 July 2011\n\n702 pages\n21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.8 kg\n\nGalen (Claudius Galenus, 129\u2013c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling widely in the Roman world, visiting the famous medical centres and studying with leading doctors. His career took him to Rome, where he was appointed by the emperor Marcus Aurelius as his personal physician; he also served succeeding emperors in this role. A huge corpus of writings on medicine which bear Galen's name has survived. The task of editing and publishing such a corpus, and of ident]