Galen on the hand / [Translated by T. Bellott and J. Jordan].

  • Galen.
Date:
[1840]
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Credit: Galen on the hand / [Translated by T. Bellott and J. Jordan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GALEN ON THE HAND. Each animal is separated by its proper boundary, and not at all united to any other creature ; so also with regard to the organs of an animal, as the eye, the nose, the tongue, and the brain, each have$ proper circumscription. If they be not con- nected to adjoining parts, but altogether separated, then they would not be a part, but a whole. There- fore, those bodies which are not altogether circum- scribed, nor in all parts joined with others, these have been named parts. If this be true, many parts make the whole animal, some large, some small. All these parts are necessary for the mind, for the body is the organ of the mind,—on this account, the parts are as vario as, as the minds : some are bold, some are timid, some wild, some tame, some gregarious, some solitary. All animals have bodies adapted to their minds.'* The horse has hard hoofs, and is adorned with a mane, for he is swift, proud, and bold. The lion, powerful and ferocious, is armed with teeth and claws. Thus also the bull, and the boar, to the one horns, to the other tusks have been assigned. To the stag * Vide Anacreon, Ode 2nd.