How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"In Princeton University Press’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life series (which includes text in the original Latin or Greek facing the translation), there’s How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness , about the ancient Greek physician Galen (129-c216). Medical knowledge has advanced quite a bit since the 3rd century, so the book is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, with the author and translator, Katherine Van Schaik, admitting she had to omit many of his better-known works. But we can still see the advice on (say) “Avoiding Distress” from this “careful physician” who offers “some ancient wisdom that we today might consider modern, were it not so old.” In OUP’s excellent Very Short Introduction series , there are new books about French philosopher Simone Weil and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ."