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Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10–15). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Galen on Anatomical Procedures
• Subtitle: The Later Books
• Author: GalenWynfrid Laurence Henry DuckworthM.C. LyonsB. Towers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781108009447
• ISBN: 1108009441
• ID: 02054466
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2010

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