Epidemics in Context (eBook)

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Peter E. Pormann, University of Manchester, UK.

Introduction 7
A New Manuscript: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 3592 21
Greek Epidemics 29
Exegesis, Explanation and Epistemology in Galen’s Commentaries on Epidemics, Books One and Two 31
Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen: The Case of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’, Book Two 55
The Arabic Version of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’, Book Two as a source for the Hippocratic Text: First Remarks 77
Syriac and Arabic Epidemics 97
The Syriac Epidemics and the Problem of Its Identification 99
Galen, Epidemics, Book One: Text, Transmission, Translation 131
The Art of the Translator, or: How did Hunayn ibn ’Ish.aq and his School Translate? 157
Galen the Pagan and H.unayn the Christian: Specific Transformations in the Commentaries on Airs, Waters, Places and the Epidemics 177
The later Arabic medical tradition and the Epidemics 191
The Arabic Reception of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’ 191
Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic Tradition: The Example of Melancholy 217
’Abd al-Lat.if al-Bag.dadi’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Prognostic’: A Preliminary Exploration 257
Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and H.unayn in the Epidemics and in Medieval Arabic Pharmacopoeias 291
Bibliography 309
Index 329
List of Contributors 339