<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Noble Cousin!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Greetings from Solveig!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Hi, all.<BR><BR>So I've been having problems tracking down an English translation of<BR>Galen's work on the temperaments (in Greek: Peri Kraseon; in Latin: De<BR>Temperamenti). If anyone knows of one, and can send me some info (ISBN, <BR>edition, publisher, et al.) that I can hand off to a librarian, I implore<BR>you please do so. Thanks in advance.<BR><BR>--Michael/Christian<BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>There is the ancient Greek, a translation into Latin, and apparently a translation</DIV><DIV>into modern Greek that I could find. Maybe nobody has published an English</DIV><DIV>translation. Since you are in the Boston area, maybe you can find a starving</DIV><DIV>classics student at Harvard to help you out? If nothing else, why not ring up</DIV><DIV>the Harvard classics department or possibly the History of Medicine unit at</DIV><DIV>Harvard Medical and see if anyone knows whether there is a translation.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One of the most promising links at Harvard is:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Which links to a medieval text initiative.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Incidentally, another translation appears to be entitled: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">De complexionibus.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">If you are interested in articles of Medieval Medicine and</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">not the description of using mirrors to sink ships, then</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">you might be interested in articles by Lyne Thorndyke who </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">discusses several sections of this work:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=THORNDIKE%20L%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=THORNDIKE%20L%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Your Humble Servant</DIV><DIV>Solveig Throndardottir</DIV><DIV>Amateur Scholar</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>