Galen, standing in a glade, looks at a human skeleton on the ground. Engraving by H.F. Rose, 1820.

An allegorical figure holding torches seated on a baroque monument; the symbols of the four evangelists above her, and Saint Thomas Aquinas and Galen at her side. Engraving by Jacob Bruynel after A. van Diepenbeeck, 1666.

Galen. Line engraving.

Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam / ... Edente authoris filio, Francisco Mercurio van Helmont, cum ejus praefatione ex Belgico translata.

The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

Galen. Line engraving by G. P. Busch.

Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri quindecim. Quorum principia sunt ab auctoritate medicorum & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata ... / [Santorio Santorio].

Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.

Above, a man studying the entrails of a cadaver as the microcosm, with the macrocosm behind; below, Hippocrates, holding the staff of Aesculapius, and Galen; bottom, instruments for anatomy and surgery. Engraving by A. Santvoort, ca. 1650.

A couple of country folk consulting a decrepit doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.

Libri V jam primum in latinam linguam conversi / Jano Cornario medico interprete. De causis respirationis liber I. De utilitate respirationis, liber I. De difficultate respirationis libri III.

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa / Vido Vidio ... interprete, cum nonnullis ejusdem Vidii commentariis.

Miniaturen der lateinischen Galenos-Handschrift der Kgl. Oeffentl. Bibliothek in Dresden, Db 92-93, in phototypischer Reproduktion / Einleitung und Beschreibung von E.C. van Leersum und W. Martin.

Operum impressio novissima / [Galen].

Claudii Galeni ...Liber de plenitudine. Polybus De salubre victus ratione privatorum. Guinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete. Apuleius Platonicus De herbarum virtutibus. Antonii Benivenii Libellus de abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis / [Galen].

[Galenou A[-E]. Galeni librorum pars 1[-5] / [Galen].

Ioannis Caii britanni De medendi methodo libri duo, ex Cl. Galeni Pergameni, et Jo. Baptistae Montani Veronenis, principum medicorum, sententia. Opus utile, & jam primum natum.

Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.

De atra bile, liber. De tumoribus praeter naturam, liber / Guinterio Joanne Andernaco interprete.

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Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

2 unnumbered leaves, vii, 142 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaf ; (8vo)

Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

Studies in ancient medicine

xxii, 313 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Naturalistic psychology in Galen and stoicism / Christopher Gill.

Early European Books : Printed sources to 1700

Early European Books.

Aphorismi / ex nova Claudii Campensii interpretatione. Ejusdem ... annotationes, quibus illustrantur evidentissima Galeni errata. His deinde nexae sunt animadversiones simul cum apologia in Galenum, itemque naturales animadversiones in Aristotelem

Online resource ([6] l., 1046 p., [10] l : additional engr. t.p., engr. port, (8vo)).

Toutes les oeuvres charitables. Sçavoir le medecin charitable. Le prix & valeur des medicamens. L'apothicaire charitable. La maniere d'embaumer les corps morts. Les tromperies du bezoard descouvertes. Le choix des medicamens. Le traité du sené. La maniere de faire toutes sortes de gelées. La maniere de faire diverses confitures. Le discours de la peste le Traité de la saignée [of Galen], Et la Methode agreable & facile pour se purger doucement, & sans aucun dégoust / [Philbert Guybert]

16 unnumbered pages, 404 pages, 24 unnumbered pages ; (8vo)

Centuria problematum medicorum therapeutika, in qua gravissimorum affectuum cognitio et curatio juxta principia Hippocratica, Galenica et Spagyrica pulchre deducitur ... partim in illustri Witeberga anno MDCVIII partim in inclyta Giessa anno subsequenti publice disputandi causa proposita ... / [Gregor Horst].

4 unnumbered leaves, 92, 106 (i. e. 108) pages ; (8vo)

Eisagoge dialektike. Euretheisa kata ten keleuse tou upourgou tes demosiou paideias sophou Billemainous proten epistemoniken kai philologiken apostolen tou M. Mena / [Galen].

Online resource (138, [4] leaves : woodcut border to t.p., (4to)).

Galeni De affectorum locorum notitia libri sex / Guilielmo Copo interprete

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Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Naturalistic psychology in Galen and stoicism / Christopher Gill.

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Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Naturalistic psychology in Galen and stoicism / Christopher Gill.

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