A Dictionary of Medical Terms in Galen
Biographical note
Richard J. Durling is Research Fellow of the Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. Recent publications include Galenus Latinus I: Burgundio of Pisa's Translation of Galen's De Complexionibus, (1976); Galenus Latinus II: Burgundio of Pisa's Translation of Galen's De Interioribus (1992); and (with Fridolf Kudlien) Galen's Method of Healing, Proc. of the 1982 Galen Symposium, (Brill, 1991).
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Academic institutions, libraries, lexicographers, classical scholars and historians of medicine and surgery.
Reviews
'...Durling vient de combler une grande lacune...cet impressionnant Dictionnaire...il me faillait le plus admirer...'
S. Byl., Les Études Classiques, 1994.
'This work will be usefull for further lexical and linguistic studies.'
Wesley D. Smith, ISIS, 1994.
'This is a well-conceived and highly valuable work...this is as near to paradise as one can come within the constraints of the saeculum.'
Helen King, The Classical Review, 1995.
'...le dictionnaire de Durling est un livre indispensable à tous les hellénistes.'
Danielle Gourevitch, Extrait de la Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 1995.
'un outil de toute première qualité pour aborder l'étude systématique de la médecine galénique...'
Alain Touwaide, History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 1996.
S. Byl., Les Études Classiques, 1994.
'This work will be usefull for further lexical and linguistic studies.'
Wesley D. Smith, ISIS, 1994.
'This is a well-conceived and highly valuable work...this is as near to paradise as one can come within the constraints of the saeculum.'
Helen King, The Classical Review, 1995.
'...le dictionnaire de Durling est un livre indispensable à tous les hellénistes.'
Danielle Gourevitch, Extrait de la Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 1995.
'un outil de toute première qualité pour aborder l'étude systématique de la médecine galénique...'
Alain Touwaide, History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 1996.
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