Galen on Anatomical Procedures: The Later Books

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Galen on Anatomical Procedures
Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly
the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the
results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim
notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The
work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have
survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work
has however survived, and this has made possible the translation of the
final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10–15). Duckworth’s
translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for
this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic
text, with the co-operation of Towers. Modern names for the parts of the
body are inserted in brackets, and an anatomical index is supplied.
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Galen on Anatomical
Procedures
The Later Books
Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth
Edited by M.C. Lyons
and B. Towers
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GALEN
ON ANATOMICAL PROCEDURES
THE LATER BOOKS

GALEN
ON ANATOMICAL PROCEDURES
THE LATER BOOKS
A TRANSLATION BY THE LATE
W. L. H. DUCKWORTH
Formerly Master of Jesus College and Reader in Human Anatomy in
the University of Cambridge
EDITED BY
M. C. LYONS, M.A., PH.D.
Fellow of Pembroke College and Lecturer in Arabic in
the University of Cambridge
AND
B. TOWERS, M.B., CH.B., M.A.
Fellow of Jesus College and Lecturer in Anatomy in
the University of Cambridge
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CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1962
PUBLISHED BY
THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, N.W. 1
American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y.
West African Office: P.O. Box 33, Ibadan, Nigeria
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1962
Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
(Brooke Crutchley, University Printer)
CONTENTS
Introduction page xi
Note on the Method of Publication xix
BOOK IX
ON THE BRAIN1
Chapter 6 Third and Fourth Ventricles, Aqueduct of the Mid
Brain, and Pineal Gland i
7 Lateral and Third Ventricles 2
8 The Region of the Optic Chiasma and the Pituitary
Gland 6
9 The Cranial Nerves 8
10 Exposure of the Brain, with an Account of the
Instruments used and of the Techniques employed
at Operation 10
11 Exposure of the Brain in the Living Animal 15
12 Experiments in Brain Surgery 17
13 Exposure of the Spinal Cord, and the Effects pro-
duced by Section of the Cord at Various Levels 20
14 Summary and Conclusions, with Observations on
the Effects of Transection of the Cervical Spinal
Cord 24
BOOK x
THE FACE, MOUTH AND PHARYNX
Chapter 1 Introduction. Dissection of the Orbit and its
Contents 27
2 The Eyeball: (1) Sclera and Cornea 33
1 Continuing from ch. 5 of Dr Charles Singer's translation: Galen: On Anatomical
Procedures (1956). Cf. Introduction, p. xii below.