C.R.S. Harris
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 2001 (reprint of 1973 edition).
cloth, dj.
Book Number 26275
This history of Greek medicine is structured around an investigation of how the ancient Greeks, in spite of their accurate knowledge of anatomy, failed to discover the circulation of the blood. Harris traces the development of the GreeksŐ ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings of Alcmaeon of Croton in the 5th Century B.C. to the sphygmology of Galen (AD 129-?199/216). The work is conceived as a source book for both classical scholars & historians of medicine and includes extensive extracts from Greek & Latin sources, with translations & footnotes.