Medicine and philosophy - Classical Homeopathy Online

400 General indexGourevitch, D. 316gradualist view on intelligence 222, 231grammar, ancient 14Greeks 225guardian deity 239gymnastics 26gynaecology, Diocles on 24, 110habit 164, 208 n.10, 254f.haematocentric theory 125, 132haemorrhage 311, 315, 325half-sleep 181, 185hands, human 216, 227; clenching of 131harm, iatrogenic 101; todono26harmonics 264Harvey 3health, causes of 11, 194; regimen in 110, 113ff.;restoration of 114ff.healthcare system 5, 6heart 119, 122, 126, 129, 133–5, 177, 228; chambersof 178; cognitive role of 26; left ventricle of 130heat 158; 218, 236; bodily 129, 273; see also hotHecataeus 23, 39Heracles 156Heracles, Pillars of 187–8; 202Heraclides of Tarentum 104, 306, 323Heraclitus 18, 22, 172; on dreams 170herbs 24hereditary aspects of disease 131heritage 213Hermotimus 173Herodotus 23, 38–9; on dreams 170Herophilus 7, 27–8, 104, 110; on causation 12;interest in ‘physics’ 11; reception ofAristotelian ideas in 16Hesiod 50 n.14Hippocrates 3, 5, 7, 10, 21–5, 103; Dioclespresented as second to 74; as represented byGalen 327Hippocratic medicine 20; diversity within 5Hippocratic writers, on body–soul relationship124; development of epistemological concepts12; on melancholy 140, 154–5; on soulfunctions 122; on status of the medical art105ff.; therapeutic principles of 26; ontherapeutics 110ff.; views on location ofmental functions 26–7Hippocratic writings 2, 13, 19, 34ff., 102;anonymity of 23; diversity within 21ff.;differences with regard to Aristotle 263, 267ff.,269; known to Aristotle 14, 16; similaritieswith Aristotle 260, 274; works: Airs WatersPlaces 21, 34, 56, 191; Aphorisms 75 n.5;Epidemics 2, 31–2, 34, 39; Oath 2, 5, 21, 26,101–2; On Affections 112; On Ancient Medicine2, 19, 36, 75–6, 86ff., 122, 282; On the Art ofMedicine 18, 33, 36, 269; On Breaths 18, 33, 36,125, 132f, 134, 269; On Diseases 1 36, 115, 125;On Diseases 2 115, 125; On Diseases 3 115; OnDiseases of Women 35; On Fleshes 9 n.17, 12, 18,130, 195; On Generation / On the Nature of theChild/On Diseases 4 17, 269; On the Heart 125,130; On Internal Affections 115; On the Natureof Man 9 n.17, 12, 18, 34, 140, 153, 155; On theNature of the Woman 35 On Places in Man 18;On Regimen 5, 12, 18, 22, 27, 71–2, 75–6, 86ff.,111, 122, 127, 169–70, 172, 175, 191, 195, 198ff.,230–1; On the Sacred Disease 2, 5, 9 n.17, 17,19, 34, 36, 45–73, 123, 131–2, 134, 156, 191;Pharmakitis 112historiography, ancient 14Homer 50 n.14, 182homosexuality 302hopelessness, of cases of disease 57, 71 n.62, 102,115–16hot, elementary quality of 12, 19, 89, 225, 228, 230human, nature of disease 48ff., 51ff., 57–8humours 9 n.17, 12, 24, 27, 90, 159; theory of140–1, 153hupothesis 19, 122hygiene 14, 24–6hylomorphism 173, 199Hymes, D. 32–3ileus 107imagination 141, 144ff., 149ff., 223–4; in Aristotle17, 170, 175, 179, 182impiety (asebeia) 46, 48 n.10, 62–3, 69impotence 56, 191imprints 216impulses (hormai ) 240, 246incantations 63, 131incidental perception 234incurability 62Indian medicine 5indication (endeixis) 78, 282, 303; (tekmērion) 12,169indigestion 315inference from signs 13, 24, 27, 29; inferentialreasoning 279, 282, 315infertility, female 259ff., 262ff.; male 259, 268inherited features 11, 265insects 177instability 158ff., 161, 166institutional history of medicine 4intellectual history 4intellectuals, religious beliefs of 47, 70intelligence 55, 120, 166; degrees of 222, 225, 228intuition 231–2invisible 84, 309