Galen's "On the Natural Faculties" is a medical treatise exploring the body's physiological functions and inherent powers. This work is significant for its detailed anatomical and physiological observations, influencing Western medicine for centuries.
Sources for Galen — On the Natural Faculties
Galen — On the Natural Faculties in Medicine
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- Hippocrates — The Complete Works (Corpus Hippocraticum) (classic texts)
- Joseph Baron Lister — The Collected Papers (1909)
- Louis Pasteur — On Germ Theory and Microbiology (early papers) (19th century)
- Florence Nightingale — Notes on Matters Affecting Health (1858)
- Andreas Vesalius — De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543)
- William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1628)
- Edward Jenner — An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (1798)
- John Snow — On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855)
- Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery (1867)
- Robert Koch — Die Aetiologie der Tuberculose (The Aetiology of Tuberculosis) (1882)