{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg012.local001","title":"De ossibus ad tirones","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1821","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. 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Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Τῶν ὀστῶν ἕκαστον οἷόν τέ ἐστιν αὐτὸ καθ’ ἑαυτὸ καὶ ὡς ἔχει τῆς πρὸς ἄλληλα συντάξεως, ἐπίστασθαί φημι χρῆναι τὸν ἰατρὸν, εἴπερ γε ὀρθῶς μέλλει τά τε κατάγματα αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ἐξαρθρήματα ἰᾶσθαι. δῆλον γὰρ δὴ, ὡς ἐν ἅπασι τοῖς ἐν ἰατρικῇ σκοπὸν ἔχειν δεῖ τὸ κατὰ φύσιν. ὅστις δὲ τοῦτο ἀγνοεῖ, οὔτε ὅπη τὰ πεπονθότα τῆς φύσεως ἐξίσταται, οὔτε ὡς χρὴ αὐτὰ ἐπανάγειν εἰς τὸ κατὰ φύσιν, εἴσεται· ὥστε οὐδὲ γνωρίζειν τὰς νόσους, οὐδ’ ἰᾶσθαι ὀρθῶς δυνήσεται. ἔστι μὲν δὴ τὰ ὀστᾶ σκληρότατά τε καὶ ξηρότατα τοῦ ζώου μόρια, καὶ, ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις, γεωδέστατα. ὑποβέβληται δὲ καὶ οἷον ὑπερήρεισται τῇ λοιπῇ τοῦ σώματος οὐσίᾳ, καθάπερ τινὰ θεμέλια· πάντα γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῖς ὀστοῖς πέφυκέ τε καὶ ἐστήρικται. εἰσὶ δὲ ἐν αὐτοῖς τὰ μὲν μεγάλα, κοιλίας μεγάλας ἔχοντα, μυελοῦ πλήρη· τὰ δὲ σμικρά τε καὶ στερεά ἐστι, καὶ ἀμύελα, καὶ οὐδεμίαν αἰσθητὴν ἔχει κοιλότητα. τῶν δὲ μεγάλων τοῖς πλείστοις ἐπιφύσεις εἰσὶ κατὰ τὸ πέρας…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΟΣΤΩΝ ΤΟΙΣ ΕΙΣΑΓΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-prooemium"},{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/#tlg0057-tlg012-local001-25"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}