Medicine and philosophy - Classical Homeopathy Online

General indexabortive 102Academy, early 92acoustics 264actuality (Arist.) 295; first 177, 213administration of drugs, mode of 288aetiology 90 n.37; see also causal explanationAëtius (doxographus) 11age, of patient 52, 81, 98, 152, 213, 224, 228, 230;see also old age, childrenAias 156air 19, 126, 132, 145; divinity of 55aitia (cause) 12; aitios 54, 59, 132; see also prophasisakrasia 148ff., 220Alcibiades 166Alcmaeon of Croton 13, 18, 22, 39;encephalocentric theory of 125, 130Alexander of Aphrodisias 10, 16, 28Alexandria 14, 16, 27alternative medicine 4analogy 12; medicine used as 264anaphora 36anatomy 10, 25; Aristotle on 263; comparative 14;Diocles on 24, 26, 110Anaxagoras 18, 19, 22; on sterility 17Anaximander 46, 50 n.14Anaximenes 19, 55animals 175, 187, 207, 226; intelligence of 226,231–2; sexual behaviour of 259Anonymus Londiniensis 11, 16, 23, 264Anonymus Parisinus 90 n.37antecedent cause see causeanthrōpinos 48ff., 52ff., 91anthropocentrism 259, 262, 268anthropology, medical 4ff.antithesis 36, 40aorta 119, 130aphoristic style 39Apollonius the Empiricist 104apotropaeic ritual 45Arabic dream theory 171Aratus 34archaeology 1, 7archives 38area, geographical 81, 98Aristotle, cardiocentric theory 125; developmentin his ideas 206–7, 243; on epilepsy 133; ongood fortune 238ff.; influence on Galen 293;on the limits of causal explanation 92; medicalinterests of 10–11, 14ff., 154f., 212, 230, 262ff.;on melancholy 139ff.; on the mind 130, 206ff.;on oral teaching 36, 40; organisation ofknowledge 39; relationship to Diocles 24,95ff.; on relationship between medicine andphilosophy 13 ff., 123, 193ff., 263; on sleep anddreams 169ff.; on sterility 17, 259ff.; style ofhis writings 31, 34; on soul functions 122;theological ideas 69 n.60, 238ff.; onundemonstrables 82Aristotle, biological works 261; medical works262ff.; zoological works 206, 231; works:Dissections 263; Eudemian Ethics 17;Generation of Animals 260ff., 264ff., 272ff.;History of Animals 15, 175, 259ff.; MedicalProblems 263; Nicomachean Ethics 95, 210, 262;On Breath 16; On Divination in Sleep 17, 21,144ff., 156, 170, 186ff., 257f.; On Dreams 145ff.,170, 175, 179ff.; On Health and Disease 196,263; On Remedies 106, 264; On SensePerception 211, 216; On Sleep and Waking 133,175–7; On the Soul 175, 206ff., 209ff., 231, 262;Parts of Animals 175; Parva naturalia 8, 11, 175,193, 263, 206ff., 209ff., 231; Physiognomonica236; Problemata physica 16, 27, 139ff. 155ff.,231, 263, 265, 270, 273; Rhetoric 210Aristotelian style of reasoning 80, 82, 93Aristotelianism 14arteries, as distinct from veins 27Asclepiades of Bithynia 11, 104, 306f., 310, 319,321, 326Asclepius 169; cult of 63Asia 225asthmatic complaints 131396