On the Natural Faculties de Galen; Brock, A.J. [Arthur John, translator] - 1963

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 71. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. lv, 339 p.p., [8]. White scuffs to rear board from dust jacket, light bumping to spine ends, Dust jacket darkened and worn at spine, cropped to front flap, chipped at corners, bumped at edges, short tear to foot of front joint, worn at edge of rear flap. Galen (born 129 CE, died c. 216) was a Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century.