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214 GALENUS. O'GALENUS.
The pathology of Galen, says Dr. Bostock, was Galeno, et aliis quibusdamn (vol.- xix. 68. rlepl
much more imperfect than his physiology, for in vupyulv wrps'As'ciTvLO; De Pulsibus ad Anto.this department he was left to follow the bent of nium (vol. xix.); spurious. 69. Compendium Pulhis speculative genius* almost without control. suum (vol. viii. ed. Chart.); spurious.
He adopts, as the foundation of his theory, the It would be difficult to give anything like an
doctrine of the four elements, and, like Hippo- analysis of Galen's mode of discovering the nature
crates, he supposes that the fluids are the primary of diseases, and of forming his prognosis, in which
seat of disease. But in the application of this doc- his skill and success were so great'that he ventrine he introduces so many minute subdivisions tured to assert that, by the assistance of the Deity,
that he may be regarded as the inventor of the he had never been wrong. (Comment. in Hippocr.
theory of the Humoralists, which was so generally "Epid. I." ii. 20. vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 383.)
adopted in the schools of medicine. One of his chief sources of prognosis was derived from the Critical Days, in which doctrine he
-VI. WORKS ON DIAGNOSIS AND SEMEIOLOGY. reposes such confidence that he affirms, that, by a
proper observance of them, the physician may be
41. NlIel Rv lIe7rovOdrCouv TdJ7rwv, De Locis Af- able to prognosticate the very hour when a fever
fectis, in six books (vol. viii.); sometimes quoted will terminate. He believed (as did most of the
by the title. ALa7vwaTLC4, Diagnostica. This is ancient authorities) that the critical days are influpreferre'd by Haller to any of Galen's works, and enced by the moon. Another very important elehas always been considered one of the most valu- ment in his diagnosis and prognosis was afforded
able and elaborate, as: it was written when he was by the Pulse, on which subject, as the works of his
mature in judgment and experience. 42. lepl predecessors are no longer extant, he may be conAiqcpopias nlvpe'r6v, De Dieregitiis Febrium (vol. sidered as the first and greatest authority,-we
vii.) 43. rlepl rv ev'-ra-ts NJaooL KaitpSv, De might almost say our sole authority, for all subse_Morborum Temporibus (vol. vii.). 44. TIepl Trcv quent writers were content to adopt his system
pvuyu6Cv'os Elraeyolevoes, De Pulsibus ad Ti- without the slightest alteration. According to
rones (vol. viii.). 45. IIepl stampopas usvy1cv$, Galen, the pulse consists of four parts, of a diastole
De DifTerentia Pulsuumr (vol. viii.). 46. rIspl and a systole, with two intervals of rest, one after
_Aaecyvoews puvylcu, De Dignoscendis Pulsibus. the diastole. before the systole, and the other after
(vol. viii.). 47. Iep1 Arv fv roS ~ZptryUOS Al- the systole before the diastole. He maintained:riwv, De Caausis Pulsuum, (vol. ix.). 48. IEsp! that, by practice and attention all these parts can
npo'yvoJoews -(puycl/v, De Praesagitione ex Pul- be distinguished (De Dignose. Puls. iii. 3. vol.
sibus, (vol. ix.). These last four works are some- viii. p. 902, &c'.); but his system is so complicated
times considered as four parts of one large treatise. and subtle that it would be hardly possible to make
49. Zdvo4ts 7refpl puvyocv'Itas npayAae'r as, it intelligible to the reader without going to greater
Synopsis Librorum suorum de Pulsibus (vol. ix.). lengths than can here be allowed. A full account
h50. Iepl Kpiceitwv'H/uepcv, De Criticis Diebus (vel of it is given by Mr. Adams in his Commentary on
Decretoriis) (vol. ix.). 51. fIepl Kplerwv, De Paulus. Aegineta:(ii. 12), to which work in this,
CQrisibus (vol. ix.). 52. De Causis Procatarcticis as in several other instances, the present article is
(vol. vii. ed. Chart.). 53. Ilepl Aiacopa is N6okr- much indebted.
AdTcov, Do Dfe Direntia Morborum (vol. vi.). 54.
n!ept?ev v.arons Noa-/luaaqv Ai'gwv, De Morborum
flopi-c' 7.OIs NYO.ovii.). Airev,l Do Molrborum AVI1. WORKS ON PHARMACY AND MATERIA
fCaiusis(vol. vii.). 55. Iep?1:lvr'rw1Ad&T'w Aiarpo- MEDICA.
pas, De $ymptonmatum Dferentia (vol. vii').: 56.
Iepi AI'riWv Pcv/rstdL'aav, De Causis Sympto- 70. rlepl- Kpdaoews Kai Avvdpcws T'v'A7rAv
smatuem, in three books (vol. vii.). This and the 4axp1uaKtwv, De Temperamentis et Facultatibus Simthree preceding treatises are intimately connected plicium Medicamentorum, in eleven books (vols.
together, and are merely the different parts of one xi. xii.). Galen recommends his readers to study
large work, as they are considered in some editions the third book of his work De Temperanzentis,
of Galen's writings. 57. IT6s AEt'EA5EYXeLV which treats of the temperaments of drugs, be-'roOs IlpoorotoOV1Y ovs NoveV, Quomodo sint.De- fore they begin to read this treatise. (Ars
prehendendi Morbum Sinulantes (vol. xix.). 58. /Med. c. 37, vol. i. p. 407.) 71. lIsept:vZe'Ifpl Tjs P'Evvrl aYv Xayvesofs, De DDignotione oer lap4daowv rec KaTa TJ'rovs, De Composiex Irisomniis (vol. vi.). 59. rIep r1v& tpOeYoiceLv tione Medicamentorum secundum Locos (vols.'rpos'Er'ye'v-v, De Praenotione ad. Epigenem (sive xii. xiii.). 72. Ilepl ~ vvOe'oecws 4,apgdaCwv ralv
Posthumszur) (vol. xiv.). 60. rlIepl T47rcov, De KaTd re'vn, De Compositione Medicamentorum
Typis (vol. vii.); of rather doubtful genuineness. secundum Genera (vol. xiii.). This and the pre61.'NpIOs f'obs rep? TCrwv rpa iavras, 0i'repl: e- ceding treatise may be considered as two parts of
pfobov, Adversus eos qui de Typis scripserunt, vel de one'large work. 73. nIepl'Avsr'Trwo7o, De AntiPeriodis (vol. vii.); of doubtful genuineness. 62. dotis (vol. xiv.). This is one of Galen's last
nept Ipoyv'oeor, De Praenotione (vol. xix.); spu- works, and written in the reign of the emperor
rious. 63. nIpoTyvpcos IIfereipalZmvv Kal IIaravAXi07s, Severus, about the year 200. 74. Ilepl EiiroplPraesagitio Experta et omnino Vera (vol. xix.); a7rov, De Remediis facile Parabilibus (vol. xiv.).
spurious. 64. IIepl KaaKtickfoarws IlpoywcorKucd Ec The third part of this work is undoubtedy spurious.
bTs MaO la'srKss'EvrlTnLOTzr, Prognostica de De- 75. nIpl 7irS rhpoaKos 7rp~s Iteawva,.De Thericubitu ex Matlematica Scientia (vol. xix.); spu- aca ad Pisonem (vol. xiv.) This work is quoted as
rious. 65. lIep' Oupwv, De Urinis (vol. xix.); of genuine by * Aetius, Paulus Aegineta, and the
doubtful genuineness. 66. nepl OYpwsv hv vvv'- Arabic physicians;. but is considered to be of
Tr4t1m, De Urinis Compendium (vol. xix.); spurious. doubtful authority by some modern critics. This
67. r isp. 06~OovK Ois c' I7 IrroKcpd'ovs -K i rKaX- condemnation, however, seems to the writer to rest
kogl, Ka X iAoiw s'a,'v,w De Urinis ex Ilippocrate, on insufficient grounds, as, on a cuisory examina