=LDR 00000nam 2200000 4500 =001 INLIS000000000001415 =005 20200508201447 =008 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| =020 $$a 0-85229-531-6x9 =035 $0010-0520001415 =041 $$a eng =082 $$a 081.20 =084 $$a 081.20/PLA/G =100 $$a Hippocratic =245 $$a Great Books of The Western World =250 $$a Ke-5 =260 $$a Chicago $b Encyclopedia Britannica $c 2005 =300 $$a ix, 449 hlm, 21 cm =520 $$a Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 9 provides the history, philosophy, works and story of Hippocratic Writings, and Galen, a prominent ancient Greek physician, whose theories dominated Western medical science for over a millennium. The forename "Claudius", absent in Greek texts, was first documented in texts from the Renaissance.