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Title

Vesalius, the China root epistle : a new translation and critical edition / Andreas Vesalius ; edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison ; with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.

Author

Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Garrison, Daniel H.

Description

xxvii, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti. English

Alternative Title

Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti.

Subject

• Galen
• Dubois, Jacques, 1478-1555
• Materia medica, Vegetable
• Medicinal plants
• Anatomy
• Phytotherapy
• Plant Preparations > therapeutic use
• Smilax

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Dedicatory preface Franciscus Vesalius -- 2. Author's greeting to Joachim Roelants -- 3. Occasion for writing about the China root -- 4. With what success many have used the China -- 5. Description of the China root -- 6. Method of preparing the China decoction -- 7. Quantity of the first China decoction to be delivered, and the time to give it -- 8. How a sweat should be induced -- 9. What drink is useful -- 10. Sleep and wakefulness -- 11. Movement and rest -- 12. Concern about bodily wastes -- 13. What affects of the mind are applicable -- 14. Sexual activity -- 15. How long the first decoction should be used -- 16. A method of taking and preparing a second decoction -- 17. A way of administering sparta parilla -- 18. Native and familiar drugs should be put to use rather than exotics -- 19. Decoction of chamaedrys -- 20. No small results can (by expected from genuine rhapontic -- 21. Hapless people who gratify themselves by publishing something -- 22. Occasion for the letter of Sylvius in which it was declared that nothing written by Galen is completely in error
• 23. Occasion for the opinion, here to be recorded, of the letter in which Vesalius replied to Sylvius -- 24. Galen did not dissect humans, but teaches the study of animals instead of man -- 25. A number of conjectures from the bones -- 26. Conclusions drawn about the fat, muscles, and ligaments, whereby it is concluded that Galen did not describe the human fabric -- 27. Several places taken from the series of veins and arteries in which it is inferred that Galen did not dissect humans -- 28. Reasons taken from the nerves by which it is known that humans were not dissected by Galen -- 29. Reasons selected from the contents of the peritoneum -- 30. Some conjectures based upon the parts that are contained in the thorax -- 31. Reasons taken from those contained in the skull -- 32. Some places where Galen openly criticized the Ancients because they had dissected humans and not apes, as he did -- 33. Not everything in his description of the parts was correctly reported and described by Galen -- 34. A number of untrue descriptions in the bones -- 35. Several inaccurate descriptions taken from the account of muscles and ligaments
• 36. Some false descriptions gathered from the account of veins and arteries -- 37. Accepted descriptions in the account of nerves which are not quite true -- 38. Descriptions of the parts that are contained in the peritoneum, which are not entirely true -- 39. Several untrue descriptions gathered from the parts contained in the thorax -- 40. False descriptions among the parts that are surrounded by the skull -- 41. Some places where it is known that Galen was not altogether sound in assigning the functions and uses of the parts -- 42. In his account of the bones -- 43. Several uses and functions not well assigned in Galen's account of the muscles and ligaments -- 44. Places collected from the description of veins, arteries, and nerves where it is known that Galen consistently assigned incorrect uses and actions -- 45. A description of some things that are contained in the peritoneum -- 46. From the description of parts located in the thorax and skull -- 47. Some invalid anatomical proofs of Galen are mentioned -- 48. How useful the annotations of Vesalius have been in Galenic anatomy, and how little they are to be needed hereafter -- 49. Method of administering the water of the China root.)

ISBN

• 9781107026353 (hardback)
• 1107026350 (hardback)

LCCN

2012008272

OCLC

• ocn781991815
• 781991815
• SCSB-14174096

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries