A treatise on prognostic pulse diagnosis. Galen teaches how to use the pulse to predict the future course of a disease — whether it will worsen, improve, or reach a crisis — making the pulse a predictive as well as diagnostic tool.
Start ReadingGalen teaches how to use the pulse to predict whether a disease will worsen, improve, or reach a crisis.
Prognostic pulse patterns in specific diseases. Galen correlates particular pulse changes with the future course of different conditions.
The pulse near crisis. Galen examines how the pulse changes as a disease approaches its critical turning point.
Pulse prognosis in chronic conditions. Galen teaches how to read the pulse for long-term predictions about disease outcome.