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Book SynopsisProfessors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of four of Galen's physiological treatises on respiration and the arteries. Their text is the first to make use of Arabic translations of An in arteriis and De usu pulsuum based on a Greek text that is earlier and better than the
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*I. Theories of Respiration Before Galen, pg. 1*II. Galen and the Later History of Theories of the Heart, Lungs, and Vessels, pg. 40*III. Galen's Experiments and the Origin of the Experimental Method, pg. 47*IV. "Use" and "Activity", pg. 58*De Usu Respirationis, pg. 71*An in Arteriis Natura Sanguis Contineatur, pg. 135*De Usu Pulsuum, pg. 185*De Causis Respirationis, pg. 229*Notes to Translations, pg. 247*Bibliography, pg. 279*Index Nominum, pg. 287*Index of Passages Cited in Introduction and Commentary, pg. 288
