The Complete Works of Galen, Vol. 1

PREFACE.

might be removed. At the same time, out of his distinguished kindness toward me, he promised that if he noticed such things while reading, he would correct them with my consent. This promise from a man most learned in Greek could not fail to be most pleasing to me. Therefore, if Galen now appears much more corrected than in previous editions, readers will primarily owe this to Schaefer, a most learned man.

In addition to this effort to offer readers a more corrected version of Galen’s Greek text, I also worked to publish the Greek versions of his works from handwritten manuscripts, which until now were known only through Latin translations. I succeeded in this with Galen’s commentary on Hippocrates' Hippocrates of Kos, the ancient Greek physician often called the father of medicine. book On Humors original: "de humoribus"; this treatise discusses the four bodily fluids—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—which were central to ancient medical theory., which I knew was hidden in the Royal Library in Paris. I had also learned that Bosquillon Édouard-François-Marie Bosquillon (1744 to 1814) was a French physician and classical scholar known for his work on Hippocrates., who deserved very well of this father of rational medicine through his edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, had already transcribed that manuscript. He had compared it with another that was once kept in the Coislin Library The Coisliniana was a major collection of Greek manuscripts gathered by Henri-Charles de Coislin, Bishop of Metz, now part of the National Library of France. and had prepared it for a future edition, to be improved with many corrections and conjectures. Of which edition