Frasi di Galeno

Galeno di Pergamo è stato un medico greco antico, i cui punti di vista hanno dominato la medicina occidentale per tredici secoli, fino al Rinascimento, quando cominciarono lentamente e con grande cautela a essere messi in discussione, per esempio dall'opera di Vesalio.

Dal suo nome deriva la galenica, l'arte di preparare i farmaci da parte del farmacista in farmacia. Wikipedia  

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“Lo scopo dell'arte medica è la salute, il fine è ottenerla.”

Origine: Da De Sectis, in Opere scelte, a cura di I. Garofalo, M. Vegetti, UTET, 1978.

“Ricordati che il miglior medico è la natura: guarisce i due terzi delle malattie e non parla male dei colleghi.”

Origine: Citato in Valentina Beggio, Cosa raccontano i cristalli e come usarli, Giunti Editore, Firenze, 2001, p. 7 http://books.google.it/books?id=mRXgAERXAE0C&pg=PA7. ISBN 88-440-2138-2

Galeno: Frasi in inglese

“The best physician is also a philosopher.”
Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus.

Title of a treatise; cited from Judith Perkins The Suffering Self (London: Routledge, 1995) p. 154.
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“For truly on countless occasions throughout my life I have had this experience; persons for a time talk pleasantly with me because of my work among the sick, in which they think me very well trained, but when they learn later on that I am also trained in mathematics, they avoid me for the most part and are no longer at all glad to be with me.”

Galen. Margaret Tallmadge May (trans.) On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, Ithaca, New York: Cornell U. Press, 1968. p. 502.
Contesto: A god, as I have said, commanded me to tell the first use also, and he himself knows that I have shrunk from its obscurity. He knows too that not only here but also in many other places in these commentaries, if it depended on me, I would omit demonstrations requiring astronomy, geometry, music, or any other logical discipline, lest my books should be held in utter detestation by physicians. For truly on countless occasions throughout my life I have had this experience; persons for a time talk pleasantly with me because of my work among the sick, in which they think me very well trained, but when they learn later on that I am also trained in mathematics, they avoid me for the most part and are no longer at all glad to be with me. Accordingly, I am always wary of touching on such subjects, and in this case it is only in obedience to the command of a divinity, as I have said, that I have used the theorems of geometry

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.

“Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.”

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Origine: Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations, (1884), p. 223.

“That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes.”

Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 2, sect. 3; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 139.

“Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.”
Triste est omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque

Galen (30-200 A.D.), in: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, (1973), p. 19.
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“Much music marreth men's manners.”

As quoted in Garnett, Vallée, Brandl, The Universal Anthology, Vol 12 (1809), p. 192.
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“He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.”

Arabian Society In The Middle Ages, by Edward William Lane, (1883) citing Nowwájee, En-, Shems-ed-deen Moḥammad (died 1454), Ḥalbet El-Kumeyt, at footnote 167.
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“Diogenes compared them to fig-trees growing over precipices; for their fruit was devoured by daws and crows, not by men.”

Galen, on Diogenes's views on the ignorant rich, in Exhortation to Study the Arts, Wakefield (1796), p. 217; cf. Stobaeus, iv. 31b. 48.
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