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PITHIS, John A.

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Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.

Husum, Germany: Mattheisen Verlag, 1983.

First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, from whose work physicians of the later Western Middle Ages and the Renaissance derived their theory of the pulses. This text, in the Galenic tradition "largely mediated through the pseudo-Galenic tract "On pulses, for Antonius" was included in the Articella from the 11th century onward. Philaretos lived sometime between the early 9th and late 11th century.



Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE, CARDIOLOGY, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE