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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Galen"”.
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Neuroscience and Galen: Body, Selfhood and the Materiality of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage
… medicine were primarily based on the writings of Galen, who lived in the second century but was him influenced by a much older medical and philosophical tradition. In this period, the playwrights raise the same central question that now appears in so many reactions to the increasingly accepted …
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Η ΩΤΟΡΙΝΟΛΑΡΥΓΓΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ (ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΑΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ)
… A TEXTBOOK OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY OF THE ERA OF GALEN. IT CONTAINS THE ACUMMULATED KNOWLEDGE OF GALEN IN RELATION TO OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY. I USED AS A REFERENCE BOOK THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GALEN EDITED BY KUHN (LEIPZIG 1821-1833 - 12 VOLUMES). THIS KNOWLEDGE WAS CLASSIFIED UNDER THE HEADINGS: …
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Commented translation of an excerpt from Hunayn Ibn Ishaq's epistle to his patron 'Ali ibn Yahya on the translations of Galen.
… an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as well as their translations. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part One provides a historical background to the translation, and is subdivided into two sections: (1) Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (his life, his achievements); (2) Hunayn's fellow …
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A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
… study compares the lives and practices of Dr. Galen Bishop (1824-1902) and Dr. George Catlett (1828-1886), physicians emblematic of a larger struggle to shape the future of medical practice in America. The orthodox Catlett was among the best-educated physicians in St. Joseph, Mo., and he …
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The Influence of the “Final Cause Doctrine” on Anatomists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Concerning Selected Anatomical Structures of the Head and Neck.
… “causes”, and modified by Claudius (Aelius) Galen (Galen of Pergamon) (129 A.D.- 216 A.D.) stated that for an anatomical part to exist it must have a cause. This final cause was not an endpoint but a purpose or goal, and that cause could be natural or divine. This had profound effects on the …
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Peripheral neuropathies of childhood
Peripheral nerve disease was described by Galen (AD 130-200) over a thousand years ago.(3) Detailed anatomical illustrations were documented by Andreas Vesalius in his major work 'De humani corporis fabrica' in 1543.(4) Over the last two centuries an explosion in knowledge in the area has occurred, …
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach
… Alexander of Tralles, but also Oribasius, Galen, pseudo-Galen and several Latin recensions of the works of Soranus of Ephesus, including the so-called Liber Esculapii and Liber Aurelii. The linguistic study further demonstrates that the technical language of these texts was very well …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… of the Romans. | Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, taught that gastric digestion was brought about by a sort of internal cooking or coction, possibly through the agency of the "innate heat11 of the body, derived from the blood,one of the four cardinal fluids. | And this was the belief …
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Cures of the body and cures of the soul : from Hippocrates to the early Eastern Christian Fathers.
… of the Hippocratic Corpus, the writings of Galen, the Holy Scriptures and the work of eminent Eastern Christian theologians provide considerable evidence to make the case for these arguments. Secondary sources will be compared against the primary ones and will assist to highlight wider …
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Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
… mainly Celsus and Aretaeus, and a number of Galenic treatises. I looked for what we nowadays consider as the main prototypical clinical presentations of impaired consciousness (i.e. delirium, sleep and swoons) in the ancient texts, in order to analyse the way in which they are portrayed. On …
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The actions of rubellin and prorubellin, (in comparison with transvaalin)
… such as Dioscorides, Celsus, Theophrastus, and Galen. Hippocrates used it. Preparations of the bulb of the sea onion (Squill, Scilla maritime L., Urginea maritime Baker) were used therapeutically by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, i.e. by peoples of the Mediterranean region where the …
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Problems for Introspection as a Basis for Reasoning about the Self
… is our experience of selfhood. In particular, Galen Strawson views phenomenology as particularly useful for reasoning about the self. He expresses this in what he calls the Equivalence Thesis, which states that there are selves if and only if there is something that has properties attributed to …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… to the challenge to narrativity posed by Galen Strawson in “Against Narrativity,” where he claims that not everyone is Narrative by nature and that there is no reason to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking over time that is an …
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The distinct neural mechanisms underlying the production of stereotyped and exploratory vocal behavior in songbirds
Whether it is speaking to one another, or nailing a tennis serve, humans can perform an incredible range of behaviors, most of which are learned. How do we and other animals learn complicated sequential behaviors, and once they are learned how are they executed? This thesis is an investigation into …
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Motor Learning Effects of Two Types of Stressors: Implications for Practice Specificity
… (Szalma & Hancock, 2011; Van Gemmert & Van Galen, 1997). One potential explanation for these diverse findings is that stress increases the amount of neuromotor noise in the system (Van Gemmert, 1997). Low levels of stress may have an activating effect on the system which may improve motor …
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Equity of access: Exploring Internet connectivity within Oklahoma public schools.
The purpose of this study was to ascertain if conditions or combinations of conditions existed within Oklahoma public schools that created inequities in the availability of classroom Internet connections. A stratified random sample of the 471 school districts was used to identify 300 specific …
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Lived experiences of low-wage, working women in Texas without paid postpartum leave
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of low-wage, working women (LWWW) in Texas without paid postpartum leave (PPL). The USA remains one of the few countries in the world that does not provide the formal, functional social support of PPL. Postpartum is one of the …
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Mandibular Prognathism
The orthodontist is faced primarily with the problem of permanently stabilizing unstable or easily unstabilized structures in the form of teeth. Fortunately, he is able to influence the growth pattern of the face and jaws to a degree. Among the many discrepancies in growth and development of the …
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News media, asset prices and capital flows: evidence from a small open economy
Objectives: This work investigates the role for the content of print news media in determining asset prices and capital flows in a small open economy (South Africa). Specifically, it examines how much of the daily variation in stock prices, bond prices, trading volume and capital flows can be …
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