Greek Biology & Greek Medicine

CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
General Editor CHARLES SINGER
BY CHARLES SINGER
OXFORD At the CLARENDON PRESS
1922
Oxford University Press
Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University 2540.1 PRINTED IN ENGLAND.
This little book is an attempt to compress into a few pages an account of the general evolution of Greek biological and medical knowledge. The section on Aristotle appears here for the first time. The remaining sections are reprinted from articles contributed to a volume The Legacy of Greece edited by Mr. R. W. Livingstone, the only changes being the correction of a few errors and the addition of some further references to the literature.
In quoting from the great Aristotelian biological treatises, the History of Animals , the Parts of Animals , and the Generation of Animals , I have usually availed myself of the text of the Oxford translation edited by Mr. W. D. Ross. For the De anima I have used the version of Mr. R. D. Hicks.
I have to thank my friends Mr. R. W. Livingstone, Dr. E. T. Withington, and Mr. J. D. Beazley for a number of suggestions. To my colleague Professor Arthur Platt I have to record my gratitude not only for much help in the writing of these chapters but also for his kindness and patience in reading and rereading the work both in manuscript and proof. I am specially indebted, moreover, to the notes appended to his translation of the Generation of Animals .
C. S.
University College, London. March 1922.