On the Natural Faculties
Galen (Arthur J. Brock, trans.) · 175
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Arthur J. Brock translated Galen's On the Natural Faculties for the Loeb series in 1916. Galen, antiquity's greatest doctor after Hippocrates, wrote the treatise around 175 CE. It became the foundational text of ancient physiology for centuries.
Galen holds that each organ has purpose-built powers of its own. The stomach attracts, retains, alters, and expels food by distinct faculties. Kidneys, liver, and blood vessels each work by similar natural powers. His system ruled medicine for some fourteen hundred years afterward. Brock's Loeb gives Greek facing English for students. Modern physiology replaced Galen's faculties, but his reasoning shaped medicine's very questions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Galen (Arthur J. Brock, trans.) |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 175 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 800 KB |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/galenonnaturalf00brocgoog