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402 General indexnutrition 177nutritious 78nutritive part of soul 235observable 290–1, 306ff.observation 10, 12; see also empirical methodoffspring, multiple 260, 274old age 10, 11, 224old people 213olive oil 24, 110 n.19optic nerve 125optics 264orality 31, 36ff.; oral presentation 35Oribasius 11Origen 88Orphism 171–2pain 148, 181, 236palaeopathology 7palliative care 114palpitations 131parallelism 36paranoia 224Parmenides 20–1, 34; medical interests of 10particular 52, 81; vs. general 10parts, affected 303–4passages in the body (poroi) 128–9, 132pathology 14, 24, 110pathos 148, 176patient 101perception, in Aristotle 17, 210ff.Peripatetics 15–16, 27perittōma 143, 152peritton, to 18, 157, 161, 163, 165, 167, 221 n.55phantasia 149ff., 165, 182; thought dependent on218, 233pharmacology 14, 29, 104, 111–12, 279ff., 305,323f.Philistion 22Philolaus 10philosophia, Greek concept of 19<strong>philosophy</strong> 106; study of 7, 8ff.; overlap withmedicine 10ff.; of mind 206Philotimus, on the use of experience 99phlegm 131, 134; in Aristotle 140, 153phlegmatic 52phrenes 120phrenitis 119ff., 123phronēsis 127, 163, 215, 232phusa 132phusiologia 122phusis 12, 19, 52ff., 57, 73, 81, 82–3, 239, 257;human 141, 144f., 151, 160–1physics 11, 15, 175physiology 10, 14, 24, 90piety 63Pindar 170pistis 12plants 13, 172, 175, 207Plato 12, 34, 40, 156, 165; on dietetics 118; ondreams 170, 173; medical interests of 10, 11;religious ideas 67, 69 n.60; on w<strong>and</strong>eringuterus 261; works: Timaeus 11, 12, 125; Republic21plausible, the 303pleasure 148–9, 181, 236Pleistarchus 77Pliny the Elder 97pneuma 129, 132, 145f., 148, 158, 218, 221, 230,260, 270, 273, 307f.; in Diocles 24, 26, 90;psychic 134Pneumatists 321poetry, as medium for communication ofknowledge 34poison 282, 288, 294; Diocles on 24; poisoningby doctors 102polemical writing 88, 204pollution (miasma) 20, 60, 63, 64positivism 3, 9 n.17possession 63, 131postnatal purgation 52postulate 19, 84, 106; see also hupothesispotentiality 295power (dunamis) 90; of foodstuffs 77ff., 280practical science 262, 268practitioners, medical 6Praxagoras 23, 27, 104ff., 110; cardiocentrictheory 125; on epilepsy 134; On Treatments106; reception of Aristotelian ideas in 16; onthe use of experience 99prayer 5, 71–2pregnancy 260, 273prenatal purgation 52preparation, of foods 287presentism 3Presocratic <strong>philosophy</strong> 19, 62; concept of thedivine in 50prevention of disease 25, 118principles (archai) 11prognostics 24, 110progressivism 4proof (pistis) 12prophasis 12, 49, 51, 52ff., 54, 59, 68, 73, 132prophecy 232; powers of 144ff., 148, 156; in sleep172, 186ff., 241, 246prose writing 34, 38providence, divine 69psuchē 127psychosomatic disease 123psychology 206–7

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