The Alphabet of Galen

The Alphabet of Galenis a critical edition and English translation of a textdescribing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural products - includingmetals, aromatics, animal materials, and herbs - and their medicinal uses. A Latintranslation of earlier Greek writings on pharmacy that have not survived, it circulatedamong collections of 'authorities' on medicine, including Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamun,Soranus, and Ps. Apuleius. This work presents interesting linguistic features,including otherwise unattested Greek and Latin technical terms and unique pharmacologicaldescriptions. Nicholas Everett provides a window onto the medieval translation of ancientscience and medieval conceptions of pharmacy. With a comprehensive scholarly apparatusand a contextual introduction, The Alphabet of Galenis a major resource forunderstanding the richness and diversity of medical history.

List of Plates	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Signs, Symbols, and Abbreviations	p. xvii
The Identification of Plants	p. xix
Warning	p. xxi
Introduction to the Alphabet of Galen	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Character of the AG and Its Date of Composition	p. 5
The History of the AG	p. 9
The Prologue and Epilogue	p. 12
The Liber de dynamidiis	p. 18
A Road through Ravenna?	p. 21
Self-Medicating in Late Antiquity	p. 26
Evaluating the .AG's Pharmacy	p. 28
Evaluating the AG's Botany	p. 31
Conclusion	p. 32
Pharmacology	p. 36
Introduction	p. 36
Natural Products and Pharmacy	p. 36
Sensory Perception	p. 40
Drug 'Properties'	p. 45
Four Main Properties, Implicit Theory, and Greek Cosmology	p. 48
Uis vs uirtus	p. 52
Humour, Bile, and Phlegm	p. 55
Explicit Theorizing in the AG	p. 57
The 'Doctrine of Signatures' and the Absence of Magic in the AG	p. 59
Non-Medical Uses	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 62
Sources Compared and Lost	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
Dioscorides	p. 64
Pliny	p. 69
Sextius Niger: The Possibility	p. 70
Other Lost Sources BC to AD	p. 74
Two Linguistic Echoes: The Diaeta Theodori and Ps. Apuleius	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 81
The Comparanda: An apparatus comparationum	p. 82
Language, Latinity, and Translation	p. 84
Introduction: Language and Dating the AG	p. 84
Grammar	p. 85
Vocabulary	p. 88
Uiscidus and uiscide	p. 92
The -aster / -astrum Suffix	p. 96
Greek in the AG	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 106
Difficulties of Terminology and Translation	p. 107
Neologisms and Rare Words	p. 112
Manuscripts	p. 116
Overview and Editorial Principles	p. 116
Variants	p. 119
Manuscripts	p. 120
The Editio princeps	p. 134
Alphabetum Galieni (Latin Text) / The Alphabet of Galen (English translation)	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 383
Index	p. 419
Plants and Plant Products	p. 419
Minerals and Mineral Products	p. 427
Animals and Animal Products	p. 430
Places and Place-Names	p. 431
Medical	p. 433
General	p. 438
Interesting or Rare Words (see also ch. 4.I)	p. 440
Materia medica (General)	p. 442
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