Vesalius: the China Root Epistle : A New Translation and Critical Edition
ISBN: 9781107026353 | 1107026350
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 8/31/2013
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This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle.
| Dedicatory preface Franciscus Vesalius | |
| Author's greeting to Joachim Roelants | |
| Occasion for writing about the China root | |
| With what success many have used the China | |
| Description of the China root | |
| Method of preparing the China decoction | |
| Quantity of the first China decoction to be delivered, and the time to give it | |
| How a sweat should be induced | ... MORE |
| What drink is useful | |
| Sleep and wakefulness | |
| Movement and rest | |
| Concern about bodily wastes | |
| What affects of the mind are applicable | |
| Sexual activity | |
| How long the first decoction should be used | |
| A method of taking and preparing a second decoction | |
| A way of administering sparta parilla | |
| Native and familiar drugs should be put to use rather than exotics | |
| Decoction of chamaedrys | |
| No small results can by expected from genuine rhapontic | |
| Hapless people who gratify themselves by publishing something | |
| Occasion for the letter of Sylvius in which it was declared that nothing written by Galen is completely in error | |
| Occasion for the opinion, here to be recorded, of the letter in which Vesalius replied to Sylvius | |
| Galen did not dissect humans, but teaches the study of animals instead of man | |
| A number of conjectures from the bones | |
| Conclusions drawn about the fat, muscles, and ligaments, whereby it is concluded that Galen did not describe the human fabric | |
| Several places taken from the series of veins and arteries in which it is inferred that Galen did not dissect humans | |
| Reasons taken from the nerves by which it is known that humans were not dissected by Galen | |
| Reasons selected from the contents of the peritoneum | |
| Some conjectures based upon the parts that are contained in the thorax | |
| Reasons taken from those contained in the skull | |
| Some places where Galen openly criticized the Ancients because they had dissected humans and not apes, as he did | |
| Not everything in his description of the parts was correctly reported and described by Galen | |
| A number of untrue descriptions in the bones | |
| Several inaccurate descriptions taken from the account of muscles and ligaments | |
| Some false descriptions gathered from the account of veins and arteries | |
| Accepted descriptions in the account of nerves which are not quite true | |
| Descriptions of the parts that are contained in the peritoneum, which are not entirely true | |
| Several untrue descriptions gathered from the parts contained in the thorax | |
| False descriptions among the parts that are surrounded by the skull | |
| Some places where it is known that Galen was not altogether sound in assigning the functions and uses of the parts | |
| In his account of the bones | |
| Several uses and functions not well assigned in Galen's account of the muscles and ligaments | |
| Places collected from the description of veins, arteries, and nerves where it is known that Galen consistently assigned incorrect uses and actions | |
| A description of some things that are contained in the peritoneum | |
| From the description of parts located in the thorax and skull | |
| Some invalid anatomical proofs of Galen are mentioned | |
| How useful the annotations of Vesalius have been in Galenic anatomy, and how little they are to be needed hereafter | |
| Method of administering the water of the China root | |
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