Books : Le Corps Respirant: LA Pensee Physiologique Chez Galien (Studies in Ancient Medicine , No 13) (Studies in Ancient Medicine , No 13)
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN num: 9789004104365
ISBN number: 9004104364
Label: Brill Academic Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 302
Printing Date: August 01, 1997
Publishing house: Brill Academic Publishing houses
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This volume provides a new approach to Galen's theory of respiration and to his physiological thinking. The method involves reconstructing Galen's theoretical and experimental research in the structure and context of his reasoning. The book deals with the problem of muscular respiratory movement, the structure and function of organs such as the heart, lungs and pulmonary vessels, and the purpose of breathing. Other topics include bodily respiration (diapnoe), the explanation of asphyxia, miasmas and other pathological processes. The book ends with a study of breathing and vocal exercises in the Greco-Roman world. This is an important reassessment of several questions that are fundamental to the history of medicine; it provides a truer understanding of one of the most impressive contributions to western medical thought.
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