A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike

4. GALEN 117

I. The Man and His Times 119 II. His Medicine and Experimental Science 139 III. His Attitude Toward Magic 165

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE Ch.2
2. PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY 41 Ch.3
4. GALEN 117 Ch.4
5. ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS, Ch.5
9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION: Ch.6
10. SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND Ch.7
11. NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND Ch.8
BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Ch.9
21. CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS, Ch.10
23. THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN Ch.11
24. THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS, OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND Ch.12
27. OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE, Ch.13
29. LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE Ch.14
31. ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE Ch.15
33. TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF Ch.16
34. MARBOD 775 Ch.17
35. THE EARLY SCHOLASTICS: PETER ABELARD AND HUGH Ch.18
38. SOME TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSLATORS, CHIEFLY OF Ch.19
BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY Ch.20
57. EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDICINE: GILBERT OF Ch.21
59. ALBERTUS MAGNUS 517 Ch.22
61. ROGER BACON 616 Ch.23
72. CONCLUSION 969 Ch.24
Introduction à l’étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge, 1889. Ch.25
1911. Popular. Ch.26
INTRODUCTION Ch.27
BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE Ch.28
Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History. Ch.29
BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE Ch.30
CHAPTER II Ch.31
CHAPTER III Ch.32
CHAPTER IV Ch.33
CHAPTER V Ch.34
CHAPTER VI Ch.35
CHAPTER VII Ch.36
CHAPTER VIII Ch.37
CHAPTER IX Ch.38
CHAPTER X Ch.39
introduction, which may be regarded as a piquant appetizer to whet the Ch.40
CHAPTER XI Ch.41
CHAPTER XII Ch.42
BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Ch.43
Chapter 13. The Book of Enoch. Ch.44
BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Ch.45
CHAPTER XIII Ch.46
CHAPTER XIV Ch.47
CHAPTER XV Ch.48
CHAPTER XVI Ch.49
CHAPTER XVII Ch.50
CHAPTER XVIII Ch.51
CHAPTER XIX Ch.52
CHAPTER XX Ch.53
CHAPTER XXI Ch.54
329. When or where the nine homilies which compose his _Hexaemeron_ Ch.55
CHAPTER XXII Ch.56
CHAPTER XXIII Ch.57
Chapter 24. The Story of Nectanebus. Ch.58
CHAPTER XXIV Ch.59
prologue which is found only in the oldest extant manuscript, a Bamberg Ch.60
CHAPTER XXV Ch.61
CHAPTER XXVI Ch.62
CHAPTER XXVII Ch.63
CHAPTER XXVIII Ch.64
CHAPTER XXIX Ch.65
CHAPTER XXX Ch.66
introduction? Ch.67
introduction, it would be a more valuable bit of evidence as to his Ch.68
CHAPTER XXXI Ch.69
introduction of Arabic medicine to the western world. Ch.70
CHAPTER XXXII Ch.71
introduction of translations from the Arabic is comparatively free from Ch.72
CHAPTER XXXIII Ch.73
CHAPTER XXXIV Ch.74
introduction of Arabic alchemy, 773; Ch.75
106. M. A. Ruffer, _Palaeopathology of Egypt_, 1921. Ch.76
8. Daimon and Hero, with Excursus on Ritual Forms preserved in Greek Ch.77
1921. See also Thompson (1913), p. 14. Ch.78
99. “Phyteuma quale sit describere supervacuum habeo cum sit usus eius Ch.79
4838. Arsenal 981, in an Italian hand, is presumably incorrectly dated Ch.80
1507. See Justin Winsor, _A Bibliography of Ptolemy’s Geography_, 1884, Ch.81
1895. Since then I believe that the only work of Galen to be translated Ch.82
66. Also II, 216; XIX, 19 and 41. Ch.83
330. Pliny, too (XXI, 88), states that trefoil is poisonous itself and Ch.84
1867. In English we have _The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria_, Ch.85
1890. I have found that Riess, while including some of the passages Ch.86
53. See below, II, 220-21. Ch.87
1860. Greek text in PG, vol. XVI, part 3; English translation in AN, Ch.88
3836. Other MSS are: BN 11624, 11th century; BN 12135, 9th century; BN Ch.89
1888. Schanz (1905) 138, mentions only continental MSS, although there Ch.90
introduction by A. von Premerstein, C. Wessely, and J. Mantuani Ch.91
177. This is not, however, to be regarded as the invention of lead Ch.92