A study of Galenism, a rational medical system embracing all health- and disease-related matters, and the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It deals with a range of issues regarding the historical Galen and late-mediaeval and Renaissance Galenism.
'Every haunter of research library stacks knows the blue covers and gold-colored lettering of the Variorum Collected Studies series.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... such a collection is valuable...' Medical History