Until recently no English translation of Galen's On the Properties of Foodstuffs existed. This work, by one of the greatest of ancient physicians, provides a lucid description of the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in turn affected by it, and contains revealing snippets of social comment.
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Until recently no English translation of Galen's On the Properties of Foodstuffs existed. This work, by one of the greatest of ancient physicians, provides a lucid description of the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in turn affected by it, and contains revealing snippets of social comment.
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