Medicine and philosophy - Classical Homeopathy Online

General index 397astronomers 30atheism 46, 62Athenaeus of Attalia 13 n.20Attic dialect 24, 74audience, of medical/philosophical texts 30,257–8authority 6, 30authorship, multiple 260 n.4autopsy 130awakening 220axioms 279Babylonian medicine 9 n.17balance 230; between forces in the body 130Balme, D. 260–74bandages, Diocles on 24, 110Bäumker, C. 234Bellerophontes 156bile 152; black 140ff., 159; yellow 140, 153bio-archaeology 1biology 206–7blending (krasis) 12blood 129, 130–1, 132, 135; 166; in Aristotle 140,153, 176, 185, 218, 220, 225, 230; blood ritual131; circulation 3 n.3; cognitive role of 26;vessels 142, 178bloodletting 112–13body, relation to soul 124ff.; role in mentalprocesses 17, 141–2, 164ff., 207ff., 231, 236; rolein sleep 171; studies into ‘the body’ 8Boerhaave, H. 3bones 12Borysthenes 187botany, Diocles on 24brain 20, 28, 119, 126, 129, 131–2, 178, 224, 228;ascause of disease 51, 59; cognitive role of 16, 26breath 158Caelius Aurelianus 8, 11, 29, 41, 299ff.;epistemological views 12, 299ff.; Gynaecia 301;as a source 107, 119, 135captatio benevolentiae 40cardiocentric theory 125case histories 39catalogue structure 34–5catarrhs, Diocles on 110causal explanation 12, 25, 29, 85, 261; in dietetics91–2; of disease 90, 115; see also aetiologycause 9 n.17, 45, 59, 132, 175, 188, 259ff., 289;additional 235; antecedent 303, 312ff.; conceptof 12–13; in definition 318; of disease 10, 195,305, 311; and effect 68, 79, 89; of effects offoods and drugs 78ff.; of failure to conceive271; final 179; four Arist. causes 177, 179;hidden 311; vs. symptom 27celestial bodies 13, 55Celsus 10, 303; on early history of medicine102ff.central sense faculty 175–6, 183chance 248–9change 11; principles of 13character, affected by physical factors 141, 158, 225children 178, 181, 218–19, 223Chinese medicine 5cholera 310, 318choleric 52Christianity 302chronic disease 116chronic fatigue syndrome 117Chrysippus (med.) 104, 110class distinction between doctors 195 n.46classification 12cleansing 46; see also purificationClearchus 27climate 81, 98, 127, 303climatic factors 49, 53, 68clinical practice 13, 18clystering 113Cnidian sentences 38cognition 25, 119ff.coincidence 188, 201cold, quality of 12, 19, 89, 143, 220, 225, 228, 230,236, 315; as cause of disease 51, 55colour, perception of 180common, to soul and body 175, 209common opinions 94 n.43common sense faculty 170, 175, 221–2, 227communication of medical ideas 6, 14, 24communication studies 30comparative study of medical history 4, 6compartmentalisation, of medicine 110, 118competence, claims to 6, 26complementary medicine 4concentration, mental 229conception 271f.confidentiality 26conjecture 145, 280consciousness 120, 127, 171–2constituents, of nature of foodstuffs 83constitution, of body 52, 81, 98, 213, 225, 235,238, 246, 303; types 140ff., 148, 151contemplation 244 n.24convalescence 117cookery 26, 110cooling 133–4corpuscular theory 29Cos 22, 27cosmology, framework to medicine 18courage 225cult, religious 47–8, 67