Medicine and philosophy - Classical Homeopathy Online

General index 399Egyptian medicine 4, 9 n.17ejaculation 259, 271f.elementary qualities, Diocles on 24elements, four 12, 19; of foodstuffs 83elite physicians 19emanatory theory of vision 211embryo 178; status of 11embryology 10, 14; Diocles on 24embryonic development 11emotion 129, 172, 181, 224, 236Empedocles 19, 20–1, 33, 34, 156, 165, 231 n.81;haematocentric theory 125; healing activityof 13; medical interests of 10, 103; onsterility 17empirical method 78, 85; approach to medicine 9n.17, 123; data 134, 135; evidence 25, 121, 177–8,282, 286; observation 130, 170; research 10Empiricists 12, 16, 28–9, 75, 77, 80, 84, 97, 102,105, 279, 282, 291ff., 321ff., 325encephalocentric theory 21, 124, 135Enlightenment 2enthousiasmos 242 n.19; 251ff.environment 14, 225environmental history 1, 7epilepsy 17, 19, 45–73, 109, 123, 127, 131ff., 156,191; epileptic seizure 131, 177–8epilogismos 291epistemology 12; of medicine 14, 299ff.Erasistratus 7, 28, 104, 110–11, 118, 326; onhorrorvacui 12; interest in ‘physics’ 11; on mechanicalvs. teleological explanation 12; reception ofAristotelian ideas in 16; on the use ofexperience 99error 265; in pharmacology 286ethics 26; in Aristotle 17; history of medical 4;medical 7; role of nature in 214ethnography of literature 30ēthopoion 141, 152, 158, 166Euclid 31Eudemus 264euphuia 145, 165, 227, 232Euripides, religious beliefs of 46Europe, Aristotle’s views on 225eutuchia 17evacuations, Diocles on 110evidence, medical 26; see also empirical methodexcretions 53exercise 113experience 24, 78, 84–5, 195, 254f., 279ff., 282ff.,321ff.; ‘practised’ 291; ‘qualified’ 98, 280ff.; vs.reason 29experiment 12, 135, 282, 297f.explanation 9 n.17, 12; see also causal explanationexternal remedies, Diocles on 110eyes, rolling of 131faeces 153fainting fit 177falsification 135fear 156, 236female, contribution to generation 11;reproductive anatomy 25fertility 11; fertility test 270 n.48; see alsoinfertility and sterilityfever 10, 11, 28, 145, 181; Diocles on 24, 110final cause 204; see also causefire, element 19, 27, 128, 231first person, use in scientific literature 40flesh 226–7; people with hard 166, 213; peoplewith soft 166, 213, 230fluids, bodily 12, 129, 153Föllinger, S. 261, 274fomentations 113foods 10, 14; Diocles on 24foodstuffs 282, 288, 294form–matter distinction 208, 235, 261fortune, good (eutuchia) 17, good 232, 238ff.Frede, M. 316Fredrich, C. 86freedom, intellectual 47–8 n.10frenzy, Plato on 245Galen 3, 5, 7, 8, 28–9, 40, 302, 303, 327; onHipp. writings 21; ideas about distinguishedphysicians 123; on oral teaching 37; on overlapbetween medicine and philosophy 13;presentation of Diocles by 97; philosophy ofscience 12; on reason and experience 279ff.;reception of Aristotelian ideas in 14, 16;relation to Alexander 28; teleology 16; viewson the history of medicine 11; works: On theMethod of Healing 282; On Mixtures 287ff.; Onthe Powers of Foodstuffs 76ff., 285; Thrasybulus118gas 132gender 213, 287, 303; studies 8general, vs. particular 10generalisation 89, 290generality (koinotēs) 303, 325generation 259ff.genius 18, 165genres 32–4genus 12, 316, 319Glaucias 104gnōmē 130Gnosticism 88gods 5, 239; in Aristotle 238, 243 n.21, 245, 253ff.;as causes of disease 58, 60, 65, 71; as healers62, 71; as purifiers of moral errors 65, 71; assenders of dreams 143–4, 189Gorgianic figures of speech 33, 36