{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg031.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg031.local001","title":"De usu pulsuum","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":"1823","volume":"5","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. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.15862725?urlappend=%3Bseq=159%3Bownerid=13510798903412083-165","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De usu pulsuum. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1823. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg031.local001","excerpt":"Τίς ἡ χρεία τῶν σφυγμῶν; ἆρά γε ἥπερ καὶ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς, ὡς σχεδὸν ἅπασιν ἰατροῖς τε καὶ φιλοσόφοις ἔδοξεν, ἤ τις ἑτέρα παρὰ ταύτην; οὐ γὰρ δὴ ἀβασανίστως πειστέον αὐτοῖς, ἐναντιοῦσθαι δοκούντων ἄλλων τέ τινων οὐκ ὀλίγων φαινομένων, καὶ τοῦ νῦν εἰρῆσθαι μέλλοντος οὐχ ἥκιστα. στερηθέντες μὲν γὰρ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς εὐθέως ἀποθνήσκομεν, ἄσφυκτα δ’ ἀπεργάσῃ πολλὰ τῶν μορίων ἄνευ μεγάλης βλάβης. εἰ γοῦν ἐθελήσῃς ἢ τὰς διὰ τῶν βουβώνων ἐπὶ τὰ σκέλη καθηκούσας ἀρτηρίας, ἢ τὰς διὰ τῶν μασχαλῶν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας βρόχῳ διαλαβεῖν, ἀσφύκτους μὲν εὐθέως ἐργάσῃ τὰς ἐν τοῖς κώλοις ἁπάσας, οὐ μὴν παραλύσεις ταῦτα τῆς καθ’ ὁρμὴν κινήσεως, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τῆς αἰσθήσεως. εἰ δ’ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ναρκώδη τε καὶ ψυχρὰ καὶ ὠχρὰ καὶ ἄτροφα γίνεται, τάχ’ ἂν τοῦτο κατὰ συμπάθειαν μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν τῶν σφυγμῶν ἀπώλειαν συμβαίνοι. εἰ δὲ τὰ νεῦρα βρόχοις διαλάβοις, ἀκίνητά τε παντελῶς καὶ ἀναίσθητα παραχρῆμα ποιήσεις τὰ μόρια. ἐχρῆν οὖν καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΧΡΕΙΑΣ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/#tlg0057-tlg031-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg031.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg031/local001.json.gz"}}