Études médicales, historiques et critiques sur les médecins de l’Antiquité, et en particulier sur Hippocrate, Galien, Paul d’Égine
Paris: Imprimé par E. Thunot et Cie, 1858. First Edition. Octavo, 76 pages, original blue paper wraps. Some edges remain uncut and unopened. Text in French. A substantial nineteenth-century study of the history and development of ancient medicine by Joseph-Pierre Pétrequin, the noted French surgeon and medical historian. In Études médicales, historiques et critiques sur les médecins de l’Antiquité, Pétrequin examines the writings, doctrines, and enduring influence of the principal physicians of classical and Byzantine antiquity, with particular attention to Hippocrates, Galen, and Paul of Aegina. Combining medical history, textual criticism, biography, and the analysis of early theories of disease, anatomy, therapeutics, and surgery, the work reflects the renewed scholarly interest in Greek and Roman medicine during the nineteenth century. Printed in Paris by E. Thunot et Cie in 1858, the volume is an important source for the study of Hippocratic medicine, Galenic tradition, Byzantine surgery, classical scholarship, and the historiography of medicine. A few small tears and creases to the wraps, a purple ink stamp that reads "Duplicate Army Medical Library" to the half-title, else in very good condition. Item #476
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