Medicine and philosophy - Classical Homeopathy Online

General index 403pulse 10, 27punishment, disease as 45purgation 52purification 20, 47 n.10, 63, 153; divine66–7Pythagoras 13, 20; medical interests of 10,103Pythagoreanism 172, 208qualification 280ff.qualities, elementary 12, 19; primary andsecondary 89–90, 123; of substances 79question and answer structure 36quick-witted people 213, 228–9rapid eye movements 185ratio 321ff.Rationalists 25rationality 9 n. 17, 46, 58, 238, 258; ofman208,216; of Greek medicine 2, 4, 5, 7, 19reason, vs. experience 29reasoning 85, 219, 242, 246, 279ff., 321ff.reception studies 31recollection 141, 175, 216, 223, 229, 234reflection 211refutation, method of 280regimen in health, Diocles on 24–5region 287relevance, criterion of 306religion 63, 169; relation to medicine 20–1,67–8religious healing 5, 7religious thought 45reproduction 10–12, 259ff.residue 143, 152, 196; see also perittōmarespiration 8, 10, 11rest, state of 219retrospective diagnosis 3rhetoric 6, 30–1, 33, 123right side of the body 52ring composition 39ritual 4, 48, 67, 131Roman medicine 7rootcutters 19, 110ruling part of soul 11, 119ff.sacrifice 71Scepticism 28, 75, 80, 97, 121, 305; and medicine13Schrijvers, P. H. 302Scythians 56, 191season 81, 98, 127, 287, 303sects, medical 12, 28seed, origin of 11, 12; female 260, 270; male 260,269, 273self-control, lack of 148ff.self-definition, in Greek science 41sense perception 11, 25, 129, 172, 175, 210, 226;disturbance of 224; principle of in Aristotle147Serapion 104seventh-month children 11sex differentiation 210Sextus Empiricus 10, 13, 303sexual differentiation 261sexual intercourse 259, 266sexuality 24, 26, 110shamanism 173sharpness of sight 211, 213ff.shrewdness (deinotēs) 215, 232Sigerist, H. 3sign (sēmeion ) 12, 169, 188, 267; of failure toconceive 271; dreams as signs 192ff.significatio 312, 316similarity, perception of 144–5, 165Simplicius 16skin 230slavery 214sleep 11, 128, 142f., 171ff., 175; Aristotle’s theory of8, 133, 175–7, 208, 210, 216, 218, 220, 224, 230;sleepwalking 178; stages of 181, 185slow-witted people 213, 228smell 226–7sobriety 208social history of medicine 4, 7; of philosophy 9social position of healers 6, 7Socrates 24, 156, 165sophists 18, religious beliefs of 46Soranus 8, 29, 299ff.soul 12, 127–8, 262; in Aristotle 170; faculties of122, 207; part connected with phusis 17; partsof 179; principle of movement in 245;relation to body 27, 124ff.; ruling part of 11,119ff.sound effects 36spasm 317specialisation 13, 118species 316, 319speech event 32sports 26sprinkling, ritual 66stability, principles of 13starting points (archai) 82, 92 n.41sterility 11, 17, 259ff.Stoicism 11, 27–8, 122, 302Strato 10, 16, 27Sudhoff, K. 3suicide 156suitability (epitēdeiotēs) 216summetria 266