How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Galen

How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Galen with Katherine D. Van Schaik (Translator)

272 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction classics health
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This book is ideal for readers curious about the historical roots of wellness practices and how ancient philosophies on health, balancing mind and body, and preventive care still resonate in modern times.

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The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and inventor, Galen attended the cour...

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