{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg056.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg056.local001","title":"De difficultate respirationis","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":"1824","volume":"7","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/hvd.hxpp8n?urlappend=%3Bseq=765%3Bownerid=27021597764275678-7674","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De difficultate respirationis. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1824. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg056.local001","excerpt":"Ὅτι μὲν ἡ δύσπνοια βλάβη τις τῆς ἀναπνοῆς ἐστιν, ὥσπερ ἡ δυσαισθησία τῆς αἰσθήσεως, καὶ ἡ δυσκινησία τῆς κινήσεως, ἱκανὸν ἐνδείξασθαι τοὔνομα· πόσαι δὲ τῆς βλάβης διαφοραὶ, καὶ διὰ τίνας αἰτίας γιγνόμεναι, καὶ πῶς ἑκάστην αὐτῶν χρὴ διαγινώσκειν, οὐκ ἐκ τῆς προσηγορίας διδαχθῆναι νῦν ἔστιν, ἀλλ’ ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς ἐνδείξεται. ταῦτά τοι καὶ διεσπούδασται τοῖς παλαιοῖς ἰατροῖς ἅπασιν ἡ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἐπίγνωσις, ἄλλων τε πολλῶν ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς ἐν τοῖς παρὰ φύσιν ἐνδείξεως οὐχ ἥκιστα. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἓν μέν τι τὸ κατὰ φύσιν καὶ οἷον κανὼν καὶ μέτρον καὶ ὅμοιον ἑαυτοῦ, ποικίλον δὲ καὶ ἀνόμοιον καὶ πολυειδὲς τοῖς σφάλμασιν τὸ παρὰ φύσιν, ὡς κινδυνεύειν ἄπειρον μὲν τῷ πλήθει, τῇ τέχνῃ δὲ ἀπεριόριστον ὑπάρχειν, ἀδύνατον ἔδοξε περιλαβεῖν ὅροις τισὶ τὴν ἀπειρίαν αὐτοῦ, χωρὶς τῆς τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν γνώσεως. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἕν ἐστι τοῦτο καὶ χρηστὸν τῷ ζώῳ, δῆλον ὡς καὶ σύμμετρον· εἰ δὲ τοῦτο σύμμετρον,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001/#tlg0057-tlg056-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001/#tlg0057-tlg056-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001/#tlg0057-tlg056-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg056.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg056/local001.json.gz"}}