The Complete Works of Galen, Vol. 1

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PREFACE.

When the premature death of Bosquillon Édouard-François-Marie Bosquillon, a French physician whose death in 1814 initially stalled the project. snatched hope away from us, it was feared that the labor of this learned man might perish entirely. However, the generosity of his widow prevented this. She offered all her late husband's literary materials as a gift to the Paris medical faculty. I therefore asked a most upright friend, a noble and most learned interpreter of the works of Hippocrates, the Knight de Mercy François-Joseph de Mercy, a doctor of the Paris medical faculty and professor of Greek medicine., to arrange for that manuscript original: "codicem" to be transcribed at my expense. He granted my most polite requests. He went so far in his kindness and his desire to serve the study of Greek physicians that he paid part of the transcription costs himself. I gladly and with sincere feeling take this opportunity to thank him publicly for this remarkable favor he bestowed upon me.

Nor do I feel less indebted to Friedrich Jacobs, the most learned editor of the Greek Anthology A collection of ancient Greek poems and epigrams.. He filled a significant gap using a Munich manuscript original: "codice Monacenſi". This gap appears at the end of the short book, That the Character of the Soul Follows the Temperaments of the Body original: "Ὅτι τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἤθη ταῖς τοῦ σώματος κράσεσιν ἕπεται"; this treatise by Galen argues that mental states are determined by the physical balance of the body's humors., in both the Aldine and Basel editions The Aldine Press in Venice (1525) and the printers in Basel (1538) produced the first major Greek editions of Galen.. Although I was not unaware,