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Greek Biology & Greek Medicine

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Charles Singer
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The book traces the development of biological and medical knowledge in classical antiquity, beginning with attentive observation recorded in early art and popular lore and moving to systematic inquiry embodied in ancient treatises on anatomy, classification, and generation. It examines methods of observation and dissection, prevailing theories of elements and qualities, schemes for ordering living things, and practical medicine as seen in clinical practice, pharmacology, and surgical instruments. Historical texts and illustrations are brought together with interpretive commentary to show how empirical description and philosophical theory combined to produce a coherent medical and biological tradition.

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Title: Greek Biology & Greek Medicine

Author: Charles Singer

Release date: November 1, 2020 [eBook #63591]
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREEK BIOLOGY & GREEK MEDICINE ***

CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY
OF SCIENCE

General Editor CHARLES SINGER

I
GREEK BIOLOGY
&
GREEK MEDICINE

BY
CHARLES SINGER

OXFORD
At the CLARENDON PRESS

1922

Oxford University Press

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Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University
2540.1
PRINTED IN ENGLAND.

PREFACE

This little book is an attempt to compress into a few pages an account of the general evolution of Greek biological and medical knowledge. The section on Aristotle appears here for the first time. The remaining sections are reprinted from articles contributed to a volume The Legacy of Greece edited by Mr. R. W. Livingstone, the only changes being the correction of a few errors and the addition of some further references to the literature.

In quoting from the great Aristotelian biological treatises, the History of Animals, the Parts of Animals, and the Generation of Animals, I have usually availed myself of the text of the Oxford translation edited by Mr. W. D. Ross. For the De anima I have used the version of Mr. R. D. Hicks.

I have to thank my friends Mr. R. W. Livingstone, Dr. E. T. Withington, and Mr. J. D. Beazley for a number of suggestions. To my colleague Professor Arthur Platt I have to record my gratitude not only for much help in the writing of these chapters but also for his kindness and patience in reading and rereading the work both in manuscript and proof. I am specially indebted, moreover, to the notes appended to his translation of the Generation of Animals.

C. S.  

University College, London.
  March 1922.