N. Leonicenus Interpretes of Galen on Causa Coniuncta

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  • Daniela Mugnai Florence, I

Keywords:

Nicolò Leoniceno, Galen , Causa coniuncta , Ars parva

Abstract

The philosopher and physician Nicolò Leoniceno, one of the most important members of the Medical Humanism, in the N. Leoniceni in libros Galeni e Graeca in linguam Latinam a se translatos Praefatio communis (1508) discusses his emendation to Galens’s Ars Medicinalis (28, 4 Boudon = I 381 Kühn, aijtivan; oujsivan). In spite of the debatable conjecture, it is a significant effort to solve a serious contradiction in Galen’s text. Leoniceno rejects the solutions proposed by the Arabic and Medieval Latin commentators and offers the right interpretation of causa coniuncta in Galen’s concept of disease.    

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2010-09-01

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