Susan P. Mattern - The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

THE PRINCE OF MEDICINE

Galen in the Roman Empire

Susan P. Mattern

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mattern, Susan P., 1966
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire / Susan P. Mattern.
p. ; cm.
Galen in the Roman Empire
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780199767670
I. Title. II. Title: Galen in the Roman Empire.
DNLM: 1. Galen. 2. PhysiciansBiography. 3. History of Medicine. 4. History,
Ancient. 5. Roman World. WZ 100
610.938 dc23
2012035656

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For H.v.S.

Life is short, art is long; opportunity fleeting, experiment hazardous, decision difficult.

Hippocratic Corpus, Aphorisms 1.1

Since the greatness of the art surpasses a lifetimeso that a person is unable, however hard-working he may be, to both begin it and arrive at its endfor this reason it is better to leave behind whatever one knows in written works for those who come afterward, explaining accurately and concisely and surely the entire nature of the things that are taught.

Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates Aphorisms 1.1, 17B.352K

I thank Rob McQuilkin of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin for his exhaustive and most helpful efforts on the original proposal and manuscript of this book. Stefan Vranka, editor at Oxford University Press, and an anonymous reader for the Press also made invaluable suggestions. The cartography is the fine work of Wendy Giminski.

Abbreviations are followed by the full Latin title in Khn or in the standard modern edition, the English title used in this book, and reference to the most reliable modern critical edition of the text, if this is not Khns edition. For all other works, the most recent edition is C. G. Khn, Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, 20 vols. (Leipzig: Cnobloch, 182133); reprinted in 22 vols. (Hildesheim: Olms, 196465). Modern English translations are also noted.

For the sake of simplicity I have referred to volume and page numbers in Khns edition throughout this book.

Adhort. Art. = Adhortatio ad artes addiscendas. Edition, with French translation: Vronique Boudon, Galien, Vol. 2, Exhortation ltude de la mdecine; Art medical (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2000). English translation: P. N. Singer, Galen: Selected Works (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Adv. Jul. = Adversus ea quae a Juliano in Hippocratis aphorismos enuntiata sunt (Against Julians Criticisms of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates). Edition: Ernst Wenkebach, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.10.3 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951).

Adv. Lyc. = Adversus Lycum (Against Lycus). Edition: Ernst Wenkebach, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.10.3 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951).

Aliment. Fac. = De alimentorum facultatibus. Edition: Konrad Koch et al., Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.4.2 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1923). Translations: O. W. Powell and John Wilkins, On the Properties of Foodstuffs (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Mark Grant, Galen on Food and Diet (London: Routledge, 2000).

An. Arter. Sang. = An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur (Whether the Arteries Naturally Contain Blood). Translation: David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie, Galen on Respiration and the Arteries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).

Anat. Admin. = De anatomicis administrationibus (On Anatomical Procedures). Edition of books surviving in Greek: Ivan Garofalo, Galenus: Anatomicarum administrationum libri quae supersunt novem, 2 vols. (Naples: Brill, 1986). Edition of books surviving in Arabic, with German translation: Max Simon, Sieben Bcher Anatomie des Galen (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichssche Buchhandlung, 1906). Translation of books surviving in Greek: Charles Singer, On Anatomical Procedures (London: Oxford University Press for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1956). Translation of books surviving in Arabic: Malcolm Lyons and B. Towers, eds., and W. L. H. Duckworth, tran., On Anatomical Procedures: The Later Books (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962).

Anim. Affect. Dign., Anim. Peccat. Dign. = De animi cuiuslibet affectuum et peccatorum dignotione et curatione (On Diagnosing and Curing the Affections and Errors of the Soul). Edition: Wilko de Boer, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.4.1.1 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1937). Translations: P. N. Singer, Galen: Selected Works (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); Paul W. Harkins and Walther Riese, Galen on the Passions and Errors of the Soul (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1963).