Facets

JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963)

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)

The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.

CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50) FONTE, Bartolomeo della (Bartholomaeus Fontius) (1446 – 1513)

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus&rsq…

First printed edition in Greek, edited by Jacques Goupyl. Rufus was a Greek physician who lived during the rule of Trajan. He wrote wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. His De partibus c…

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) COPP, Wilhelm (1460 – 1532)

First separate dated Latin translation of De locis affectis, made by Wilhelm Copp of Basel. In this work devoted to pathology, Galen made many valuable deductions on inflammation and on tumors. He was familiar with ch…

TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )

RUFUS OF EPHESUS, (Ῥοῦφος ὁ Ἐφέσιος) (60 – 100)

DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872) RUELLE, Charles Émile (1833 – 1912)

Greek–French edition containing all the extant works of Rufus, as well as fragments collected from a wide range of ancient and medieval sources. Digital facsimile fro the BnF at this link. The treatise On the in…