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  • Quarta impressio ornatissima: continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos ... Emittensque alios ejusdem libros nunquam cum aliis impressos / [Galen].
  • Quarta impressio ornatissima: continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos ... Emittensque alios ejusdem libros nunquam cum aliis impressos / [Galen].
  • Quarta impressio ornatissima: continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos ... Emittensque alios ejusdem libros nunquam cum aliis impressos / [Galen].
  • A man diagnosing from a woman's urine with the aid of a book by Galen. Oil painting.
  • Jan Lutma the elder, designated as Galen. Mezzotint by J. Faber the elder, 17--, after J. Lutma the younger.
  • Galen, standing in a glade, looks at a human skeleton on the ground. Engraving by H.F. Rose, 1820.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • 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.
  • Certaine workes of Galens, called Methodus medendi, with a briefe declaration of the worthie art of medicine, the office of a chirurgion, and an epitome of the third booke of Galen, of naturall faculties / all translated into English, by Thomas Gale.
  • 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].
  • Jean de Renou: his portrait, and the subjects of his book on pharmacy; centre, Galen and Hippocrates holding a lion skin; below, Richard Tomlinson. Engraving by T. Cross, 1657.
  • John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.
  • John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.
  • The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
  • 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.
  • The aphorismes of Hippocrates, prince of physicians : with an exact table shewing the substance of every aphorism, and a short comment on each one, taken out of those larger notes of Galen, Heurnius, Fuchsius, &c / [Hippocrates].
  • 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.
  • The treasuri of helth : contaynynge many profytable medicines / gathered out of Hipocratz, Galen & Avicen by one Petrus Hyspanus & translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyd ... W[yth] the Aphorismes of Hipocrates, and Jacobus de Partybus ... wyth an Epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus.
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • The complete herbal, to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities; physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind, To which is now annexed, the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added, upwards of fifty choice receipts selected form the author's Last legacy / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • 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].
  • 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].
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Thomas Gale. Woodcut, 1563.
  • In libros Galeni e greca in latinam linguam a se translatos prefatio communis. Ejusdem in Artem medicinalem Galeni ... prefatio. Galeni Ars medicinalis / Nicolao Leoniceno interprete. ... Ejusdem ad Franciscum Castellum ... in opus de tribus doctrinis ordinatis secundum Galeni sententiam prefatio. Ejusdem de tribus doctrinis ordinatis secundum Galeni sententiam opus. Galeni de differentiis febrium libri duo. Interprete Laurentio Laurentiano Florentino.
  • In libros Galeni e greca in latinam linguam a se translatos prefatio communis. Ejusdem in Artem medicinalem Galeni ... prefatio. Galeni Ars medicinalis / Nicolao Leoniceno interprete. ... Ejusdem ad Franciscum Castellum ... in opus de tribus doctrinis ordinatis secundum Galeni sententiam prefatio. Ejusdem de tribus doctrinis ordinatis secundum Galeni sententiam opus. Galeni de differentiis febrium libri duo. Interprete Laurentio Laurentiano Florentino.