The Complete Works of Galen, Vol. 1

XVI

PREFACE.

Although Chartier René Chartier (1572 to 1654) was a French physician who edited a famous combined edition of the works of Hippocrates and Galen. had already applied this correction to Galen from his own manuscript copies, I still desired to see whether the Bavarian manuscript original: "Bavaricus codex"; referring to the Munich manuscript. contained more material than the Parisian ones. Therefore, the illustrious Jacobs Friedrich Jacobs, the scholar mentioned on the previous page. kindly granted my requests. He shared with me a most elegantly written and fuller ending for that small book.

Beyond this, I have no greater wish than that this edition of Galen’s works, which I have begun with this very volume, should not entirely displease the skilled judges of these matters. I hope it is received with the honorable applause of learned men and successfully brought to its conclusion. The most honorable publisher, Karl Cnobloch, spared no expense so that Galen might appear in public with sufficient elegance and decoration. May God grant that the work he has undertaken turns out most happily for him!

I wrote this at Leipzig on the first day of November, in the year of our redeemed salvation 1820.