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  • Chapter 9 - Galen’s Anatomical Procedures and Its Innovations

  • from Part II - Text
  • Claire Bubb
  • Book:
    Dissection in Classical Antiquity
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 316-348

  • Summary

    This chapter handles the most extensive anatomical text to survive from antiquity, Galen’s Anatomical Procedures. It queries the innovations of the text and Galen’s motives in writing it. After introducing the unique character of the treatise and addressing the question of its illustration, the chapter approaches the text from three angles. First, it examines its composition, explaining Galen’s authorial process and the motivations for his rewrite of the original version. Next, it broaches its purpose, arguing that Galen intends it to stand alone as an instructional guide, thus subverting the contemporary educational norms of in-person instruction. Third, the chapter turns to the consideration of the audience of the text, both as Galen explicitly envisions it and as his implicit expectations reveal it; this includes discussion of the motivations, educational background, technical skills, and financial position Galen imagines for his readers. Finally, the chapter ends with a conclusion of the argument of the book as a whole.

  • A Sogdian Medical Text from Turfan

  • BI BO
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 31 / Issue 3 / July 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 February 2021, pp. 463-477
    Print publication:
    July 2021

  • This article deals with a Sogdian medical text in the German Turfan collection obtained from Toyoq. The recto of the document appears to contain two prescriptions for treating irregular fever and a disease involving the urinary bladder. The names of both diseases, and several ingredients used, suggest the text is closely linked to Indian medicine, especially Āyurveda. In contrast, the verso is a translation of a passage discussing dropsy in a seventh-century Chinese medical work, the first so far identified Sogdian text translated from a Chinese classical text. Despite its short content, this Sogdian medical text offers intriguing insight into the multi-cultural background of Sogdian medicine in Turfan.