Selected works of Galen / translated by Robert Montraville Green for Sidney Licht [ca.1953]
Abstract
Carbon copies of translations made by Robert M. Green of twenty works by Galen.
Dates
- 1951-1979
Extent
0.84 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Creator
- Galen (Person)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
Restrictions
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Historical Note
From 1950 through 1953, Sidney Licht, M.D. (1907-1979), commissioned the translations of several works by Galen from Greek into English with the intention of having them published. Licht was an authority on physical medicine, curator of Yale's Physical Medicine Collection and editor of the Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation. The translator, Robert Montraville Green, M.D. (1880-1955) was professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School. Green based his translations on C. G. Kuhn, ed. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig, 1821-33). Dr. Licht sent the translations to Dr. Charles Mayo Goss (1899-1981), anatomy professor and editor of medical publications. Due to some translational inaccuracies and the volume of Dr. Goss's obligations, the translations collected here have never been published.
Collection Summary
Carbon copies of translations made by Robert M. Green of twenty works by Galen. They are arranged in the order they appear in C. G. Kuhn's Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig, 1821-33). The copies were microfilmed by the National Library of Medicine in 1979. Collection includes a full set of the translations on permalife paper.
Abstract
Carbon copies of translations made by Robert M. Green of twenty works by Galen.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
Gift, Sidney Licht, 1978.
General
- Processed by
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Processing Completed
- 1979; 2008
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
Creator
- Galen (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Selected works of Galen / translated by Robert Montraville Green for Sidney Licht [ca.1953]1951-1979
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Date
- 1979; 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
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