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The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only significant account
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of
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Galen's Epistemology
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Explores Galen's contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.