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Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī 382
Abū Ja’far Aḥmad bin Abī Khālid Ibn al-Jazzār 364–65, 382
Achaemenid 320, 321
actuality (ἐνέργεια) 240 n.10, 259
acupuncture 403
acute colliquative fever 286
advertising 402
affection (πάθος) 48, 142, 156 n.3, 157, 157 n.6, 161, 169, 170, 173, 282, 283, 284
age 169 n.25, 170, 174, 261
air 176, 177, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 281, 282 n.61, 286, 287, 367–71, 380, 392
bad 367, 371, 392
outside (ὀ ἔξωθεν ἀήρ) 270, 272, 274, 275, 282 n.61, 286
air (ἀήρ) 241, 247–49, 271, 273, 274
allopathy 117, 413, 417, 419
Al-Masudi 366
The Meadow of Gold 366
alternative medicine 184–85, 401, 407–8, 409, 413, 417, 420
amniotic fluid 333 n.57
analogy 332, 335, 341, 351
macrocosm-microcosm 124–29, 248, 255, 390
Anaxagoras 251–52
and reason (νοῦς) 248
Anaximenes 237, 243, 247–48, 271
androgynos 29–30 hermaphroditus
anger 157, 160, 380
metaphors of 94–96
anima mundi 33–34
anomalous dyscrasia (ἀνώµαλος δυσκρασία) 285
anthropology 97, 103–4, 363
Anu-ikṣur 320
anus 334 n.61, 347, 350
apoplexy (ἀποπληξία) 284
Archedamus of Thera 232
archetype (Jungian) 34
Archigenes of Apamea 57, 173
Aretaeus 167, 167 n.22, 168, 370
Aristotle 5, 237–43, 245–47, 250–51, 254–58, 259, 261, 270, 272, 281 n.55, 284, 367
hylomorphism 5, 69, 77, 238
in Medieval philosophy 383
Physics 391
teleology 74–75, 78
theory of soul 65–66, 69
[Aristotle] 245, 272
Arnau de Vilanova 380
aromatherapy 408
arrangement 238–40, 257–58
cosmos/κόσµος 49, 63, 243, 244, 246, 248–50, 251–53, 254
Artaud, Antonin 35
Artemis 228, 229, 231, 232
Asclepiades of Bithynia 135, 147–50, 370
anatomy 148–49
importance of affected part 147
pathology and physiology 147–48
theory of matter 75, 135, 147
Asclepeion 403 n.15
astrological medicine / celestial healing 321, 340, 343–45
astrology 55, 403, 404
astrology / astronomy 55, 320, 321
asyndeton 337
Athenaeus of Attaleia 165, 261, 261 n.56, 367
Atlas 249–50, 252, 261
Augsburg 358–59, 371
Avicenna 386, 391, 395, 405
Āyurvedic tradition 36, 295–317, chapter 12 passim
Babylonian tradition chapter 13 passim
barrenness 325, 329
balance 6–7
baths 369
nuptial 230, 231, 232
funeral 231
beauty 203–4, 204 n.6, 205, 207, 213
being outside oneself 206
beneficial dependency 211
Bible 379
bile 56–57
black 162, 276, 277, 284, 285, 380, 395
yellow 276, 277, 285, 380
gall humours
bilirubin 339 n.82
binding force see cohesive cause
binding part see cohesive cause
biology 2, 51–53, 78, 325, 327, 345, 347, 351
bladder 148, 331, 332
blindness 393
blood 56–57, 325, 326 n.26, 332, 333, 334, 338 n.81, 342, 350, 377–78, 380, 387, 390
as αἷµα 158 n.10, 161, 269, 270, 272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287
lochial 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 232, 233
menstrual 231, 232, 330, 333
blood vessels 271, 272, 282, 334 n.60, 342
bloodletting 157, 167, 174, 416
body 241–42, 245, 248, 259, 260
body-soul relationship 4–6, 62–63, 64–77, 210, 248, 253–54, 255–58, 261, 303–5, 379, 389, 393, 401, 406 n.35
of the brain 277, 278, 279, 285
defect of 212 n.27, 386–88, 390–91
excellent 204
Hippocratic conceptions of 56–61, 253
mindful 305
as a part of the soul 201–2, 278
as a whole 155, 164, 168, 170–76, 201–2, 208, 208 n.20, 210, 378–80, 386
vessels and internal networks of 57–59, 60–61, 246 n.23, 260, 342
‘without organs’ 35
bone 341
bone-setters 419
brain 139, 144, 156, 170, 172, 173, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 320, 329, 342, 345–46, 386, 391–92
brain (ὁ ἐγκέφαλος) 269, 278 n.47 see encephalon, epencranis, parencephalis
breastfeeding 224, 226, 227
breasts 30, 58–59, 221, 223, 224, 226
breath (φῦσα) 55, 271, 272, 283 n.64
bronchitis 337 n.72
Buddhist tradition 36
Burggraeve, Adolphe 413
Bury (monastery) 381, 384, 390, 396
Caelius Aurelianus 135, 166 n.20, 167, 167 n.22, 168, 171, 172, 370
capacity (δύναµις) 158, 269, 272, 273, 278, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284 n.70, 285, 286
carbon dioxide 330, 342
care
for one’s own soul 216
that the soul must enjoy 212
for the true whole 217
for the whole 136, 212
Carley, Rebecca 412
carotid arteries 275
Carton, Paul 401
case studies 38–39
castration 331
causal priority 202, 202 n.3, 209
causes of cohesion
air 247–49, 252, 261
binding part 243–50, 254–55, 260
cohesive cause (Stoic) 237, 241–43, 247, 259–61
monarchic model 252–53, 257
pneuma 65, 70, 241–42, 247, 260–61
reason (νοῦς) 248, 258 n.48
tyrannical model 250–52, 253, 254
Cawadias, Alexander 418
Chaerephon 203
chaos 3, 39
chaosmos 39
Charmides 204–7, 209, 213
Chermet-Carroy, Sylvie 404
childbirth/birth 71, 223, 226, 227, 229 n.33, 231, 232, 233, 390
children 223, 229, 230, 231
Chinese tradition and sources 36, 318, 321, 408 n.42
Chishti, Ghulam 405–6, 407
choroid plexuses (χοριοειδῆ πλέγµατα) 270 n.8, 275, 278
Christ 379, 385, 388, 392
Christ Church Cathedral Priory 382
Christian theology 5–6
chronic diseases 140, 286
Chrysippus 70, 242 n.13, 243 n.16, 272
civic organisation 370, 374
civic physicians 359
civil War, American 402
class 37–38
classical reception studies 47–48, 50–51, 53–54
classical tradition 37–38, 47–48, 50–51, 380
Cleanthes 66–67
Cnidos 405, 406
cognitivism (embodied) 26
communication 160, 414
complementariness
indispensability of 207
complementary medicine 407, 413, 417
connate (inborn) pneuma, distinguished from external air by Aristotle 272
connectivity 9–10
Constantine the African 381, 386 n.34
continuity (συνέχεια), pneumatic 64, 244, 281, 282
controlling principle (principatus, regent part (ἡγεµονικόν)) 142, 269
Cooter, Roger 419
Cornelius Celsus 154, 167, 167 n.21, 168, 171, 171 n.27, 172, 370
corpora (philological, literary) 11, 37–38 fragments
Cos 403, 405–6
cosmetics 402
cosmos 154, 155, 164, 176–78, 268, 272, 282 n.60, 343, 401, 402, 407 arrangement
cough 58–59, 334
cramp 338
cranial nerves 275
cranium 328, 338 n.81, 342, 343, 347
crisis 187, 416
Critias 203–4, 204 n.6, 205, 206 n.15
Cullen, William 410
Davidson, James 401
De Baillou, Guillaume 362, 365
decolonisation 51
de-localising, de-isolating 206–7, 216
demon(s) 377–78, 382, 388, 394–96
in Babylonian sources: ardat lilî-demoness 328
in Babylonian sources: Lamaštu-demoness 323 n.17
in Babylonian sources: lavatory-demon Šulak 330
demonic possession 377–78, 388, 392–93
temptation from 387–88
diagnosis 140, 142, 147, 157, 161–63, 169, 171, 174–76, 178, 213, 215, 319, 336, 343, 347
diagnostic (categories, distinctions, etc.) 154–56, 162, 168, 170, 171 n.27, 174–75
dialectical enquiry 206, 213
diarrhea 326
dietetics 115, 117–18, 121–24, 128–29, 140
Diocles of Carystus 77
Diogenes of Apollonia 243, 247, 250 n.31, 251, 252, 253, 255, 259, 271
and air 247–49, 252, 271
Dionysus 229, 230
disability studies 11, 26 n.4
disease 48, 57–59, 61, 286, 320, 333, 337 n.75, 338
in Āyurvedic medicine 297–302
dividuals 36
divination, omen 320
divine assimilation 216
divine punishment 385, 390, 392
DNA 358
doctor-patient relationship 160, 379, 414
donkey 331
dosimetry 413
dreams
diagnosis from 126–29
dropsy 137–38, 140, 143, 149, 323, 339, 388–99
dualism 90, 96
‘pragmatic’ 160, 168
due proportion (συµµετρία) 168, 253–54, 276, 284
duodenum 338
early Greek physicians see Hippocratic Corpus
earth 240 n.8, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 251, 252, 256, 259
eating disorders 405
ecology/ecological themes 1, 2, 12, 28 n.9, 37, 39, 177, 221, 223
ecosystem 325
Egypt 51, 358, 364–66
Egyptian, ancient 330 n.42
elements 63, 135, 147, 240, 244, 247, 253, 255, 257, 259–60, 268, 270, 272, 273, 276, 282 n.60, 287 n.77
Ellenborg, Ulrich 358–60, 363, 368, 371
Consilium for the goldsmiths 359, 363, 371
embodiment, embodied cognition 13, 85–86, 94, 105–6
embryo 271
embryology 124–25
emergentism, emergent property 237, 270, 281
emotions 84–96, 98–106, 380, 389, 393
emotional disturbance 160–61
emotional experience 160–61
soul, affections of
Empedocles 243–46, 251, 252, 256–57
encephalocentrism 76
endemic diseases in Renaissance 365
environment 1, 2, 7, 13–16, 25, 34–35, 59, 94, 104, 114, 118–24, 128, 154–55, 163, 167, 169 n.25, 176–77, 318, 362–73, 380, 402
environmentalism 1–2
in ancient medicine 7–8
holism, environmental
envy 157
metaphors of 94
Epicureanism 67–69, 71–73, 147
Epicureans 67–69, 71–73, 75, 148 n.2
Epicurus 67, 71–72
epidemic disease 358–71
epigastrium 329
epilepsy 57, 284, 285, 382, 391–92
Erasistratus of Ceos 57, 75, 247, 272, 279
Ernst, Edzard 407–8
Esagil-kīn-apli 343, 346
Esarhaddon 339 n.84
ethnography of health 364
eudaimonia 203, 216–17
evacuation, of bowel 326, 330, 336, 380, 389
evil 210, 212, 214, 217
evolutionary biology 2
evolution 1, 37 n.44
fear 380
metaphors of 96, 101–3
feminist criticism 30–31, 30 n.19
fermentation 336, 350
fertility 224, 226 n.20, 229, 230
fever (as disease of whole body) 138, 172, 174–76, 377–78
filariasis 334
fire 240 n.8, 241, 244, 247, 256–57, 259–60, 268, 272, 273, 274, 287
foetus 333
Foucault, Michel 52–53
Fracastoro, Girolamo 365, 371–73
fracture 333 n.55
fragments 11, 38
Freud, Sigmund 34
ego, superego, id 34
function (χρεία) 269, 275
Galen 57–59, 74–77, 154–78, 241–42, 243, 253, 259–61, 401, 407, 414
Commentary on Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters and Places 366–67
De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis 272, 277, 280, 283
links with physiognomy 365
observations of groups 367
The Soul’s Habits follow the Body’s Temperaments (Quod Animi Mores, QAM) 158–59, 164, 253–54, 366
Galenism 52
influence on Medieval medicine 381, 388, 391–92, 396
gall 323 n.18, 338–39, 347
gall bladder 348
Gariopontus 388
gender 30–31
Gestalttheorie 35–36, 238 n.1, 239
ghost 323, 340–41, 342, 348
Glacken, Clarence L. 363–64, 371
god (θεός) 244, 251, 256, 268
gods 3, 197, 244, 251, 256, 342, 409
good, goodness 201–2, 205, 207–10, 212, 214, 217, 249, 251, 255
graphology 404
Guicciardini 2 n.6
gynaecology 220, 224, 333 n.57
hallucinations 175, 285
harm 412–13
harmonia (ἁρµονία) 246, 253
heart 57, 161, 173, 269, 270, 272, 274, 275, 321, 323, 325, 326, 327–32, 348
left ventricle of 275, 276
left ventricle of as pneumatic ergasterion 275
pacemaker 325
valve 326 n.26
heart-break 323, 328
heat, innate or vital 158 n.10, 159, 161, 270, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 282, 283, 284, 287
Hecate 231
hēgemonikon 142, 156, 173
Heggie, Vanessa 418
herbalism 319, 403, 409, 410–11
hermaphroditus 29–30, 230 androgynos
Herodian
Histories 369
Herodotus 59, 213 n.29
heron 339
Herophilus 58, 272
Hesiod, Theogony 238 n.2, 244
Hierocles 71, 73, 284
Hippocrates 52, 71, 75, 144, 154, 164
facies Hippocratica 175
as ‘Father of medicine’ 401–2, 403 n.15, 405, 409, 410 n.48, 417
‘genuine works’ of 55, 408, 415
in Medieval thought 380–81, 388, 396
Hippocratic Corpus 163, 169, 237, 243, 246, 248 n.27, 249 n.29
Airs, Waters and Places 7, 59, 363–64, 404
On Ancient Medicine 404
Aphorisms 404, 415
case histories 187, 190
Coan Prognoses 415
Constitutions 361–62
Epidemics 361, 415
Epidemics 1 and 3 7–8, 361–62
Epidemics 5 and 7 361
Epidemics 6 410
geographic limitations 363
Prognostic 361, 415
Young Girls 360
Hippocratic medicine
as holistic 407, 409, 413–15, 417, 420
Neo-hippocratism 415–16, 418
Hippocratic oath 405, 409, 412
historiography of science
presentism in 50, 319, 327, 351
Holby City 412
holism 51–52, 54, 55–56, 76–77, 77–78, 184–85, 237–38
cosmic 113, 115, 124–29
environmental 113, 115, 118–23, 208 n.20
methodological 37–39
‘one-with-the-cosmos’ 115, 118, 155, 176–78
ontological 32–37
of Socrates 62, 65, 114 n.7, 203, 214–17 Socrates
therapeutic 113, 115, 116–18
holistic
concept, conception 104–6, 184–85, 269, 270, 271, 272, 282, 286, 379
dietetics 209
inquiry 216
medical practice 201, 207, 212, 214
medicine 206, 211
physicians 216
principle 184–85, 201–2
Holy Spirit 379, 384, 387
Holy Trinity 5–6, 379
holy water 377–78, 390
homeopathy 184, 416
Homeric epic 185
homunculus, sensory or motor 345–46
hormone 342
human nature 201–3, 209
humanism 415
humouralism 295–317
humoural dyskrasia 285 n.71
humours 56, 62, 191–92, 277, 282–86, 380
in Āyurvedic medicine 295–317
balance of 6–7, 377, 380, 396
blood 56–57, 269, 285, 377, 380, 387
four humours 268, 380
in Medieval medicine 378–80, 382
phlegm 56–57, 285, 334, 338, 340, 350, 380, 388, 391
three humours 300
and tissues 297–98
Hylas 230
hylomorphism see Aristotle, hylomorphism
Ibn al-Jazzar 364–65, 382
Ibn Ridwan 364–65
On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt 364–65
observational skills 365
Ibn-Sīnā / Avicenna 386, 391, 395
image schemas 104–5
imagery
mental 100
incantation / magic spell 325 n.23, 335, 336, 339, 348 n.112
incubus 394
infanticide 393
intelligence, intellection 269, 271, 272, 273, 279, 280
intercourse, sexual 226, 227
intestines 326, 336
isonomia (ἰσονοµία) 252–53
jaundice 327, 339 n.82
John Cassian 387
Joshua the Chronicler 369
Jung, Carl Gustav 34
Jupiter 321
kalokagathia (the state of being ‘a fine and good person’) 205
katastasis 361–62
kidney 321, 324–25, 326, 327, 329, 331–32, 347, 348
knowledge
divine 217
of good and evil 217
of health 214, 216
of oneself (self-knowledge) 215
of the soul’s health 217
Lacan, Jacques 34–35
fragmentation 35
mirror stage 35
lactation 220, 226 milk
Last Judgement 379, 385
last rites 379
Lateran Councils
First (1123 CE) 390
Second (1139 CE) 390
Fourth (1215 CE) 379, 394
Latin 99–104, 377, 343, 381–82, 384, 386, 391, 396, 409–10, 412, 413
Le Paulmier, Julien 365
Learmouth, Ian 406
leprosy 382, 387
lexical list 320, 331, 332 n.50, 333, 342–43
Libya 364, 366
life sciences 49–50
ancient Greek and Roman 50–51
modern and contemporary 53–54
liquefaction 221–23, 224, 226, 227
Littré, Emile 52–53, 114, 225, 407, 416
liver 57, 269, 274, 321
living being (τὸ ζῶον) 48–49, 52, 78, 238, 244, 253, 254, 257, 259, 268, 287
Livy 369
localisation 9–10
localised conditions 138, 140–41
locus affectus 9–10, 134, 169, 171–73, 176, 297–98
Loma Linda University 411
loutrophoroi 230, 232
love 29–30, 29 n.14, 35 n.34, 88–89
love sickness 161, 347
Lucian 369
Lucretius 148 n.28
lung 57, 140, 270, 274, 275, 324, 326, 327, 329, 330, 332, 334–35, 347, 348
Machiavelli 2 n.6
macro/microcosm 33–34, 248, 255, 303–4, 390 see macrocosm, microcosm
macrocosm 124, 126, 128–29
magic 55, 343, 406
magician, Mesopotamian 320, 325
mania 140, 229, 231, 233, 382, 388
marriage 227, 229, 232, 233, 390
Mars 321
Marxist criticism 38
matter 238–41
corporeal, non-material 242
dynamic 259–60
elements 240, 240 n.10, 255, 268, 270, 272, 273 n.30, 282 n.60, 287 n.77, 303–5
passive 255, 257, 258, 259–60
medicine, personal 410
Medieval 343, 379–80, 382–83, 385–86, 388, 392, 394–96
melancholia, melancholy 156, 169 n.25, 276, 277, 285, 328, 382, 388, 395
melancholic (µελαγχολικός) 162
humour (µελαγχολικὸς χυµός) 285
blood (µελαγχολικὸν αἷµα) 285
menstruation 330, 333
mental illness 156, 156 n.1, 156 n.3, 161, 163, 167, 170, 172
Mercuriale, Girolamo 360–61, 374
mereology 4, 63, 67
metaphor 94–97, 99–106, 191, 195, 198, 310, 320 n.3, 333, 334–35, 343
method
of Hippocrates 113
Methodism 133–53, 154, 170–72, 174
conception of body 147–50
disinterest in hidden causes 134 n.2, 139
doctrine 148–50, 401
hamartography 145
holism 133–53
on genus and species 142–43
use of earlier therapeutic literature 145–46, 150
methodology 115, 119–20, 123, 319
metonymy 92, 191, 194, 198
microcosm 124, 220, 233, 255, 390
micro-history 38
milk 226, 227, 229, 232, 233
mind 90, 154–56, 160, 162, 167–68, 377–80, 382, 384–6, 390, 392–96
the mindful body 305
miners’ diseases 361
miracles 378–79, 382–84, 386–88, 390–96
miscarriage 333 n.57
mixture, of body (κρᾶσις) 158–60, 167, 169–70, 178, 241, 244, 247, 253–54, 254 n.41, 260–61
modernism 39
monism 3–4, 3 n.16, 6
Monte Cassino (monastery) 381–82
Montpellier, École de médecine de 33
Mother goddess 30 n.16
mucus 324 n.20, 339 n.81
muscle 326 n.26, 333–34, 339, 341–42, 349, 350 n.116
nasal passages 275, 335, 340
natural pneuma (φυσικὸν πνεῦµα) 242, 260, 269 n.4
nature (φύσις) 48, 49, 55, 70, 76, 271, 273, 274, 280, 284 n.70, 286, 287, 410
healing power of 409–12, 416–17
of individuals 133–34, 242, 245, 246, 249, 253, 254, 256–58, 259–60
naturopathy 401, 404, 410 n.48, 416
Nelega, Pauline 409, 410
Nemesius of Emesa 66
Neo-Hippocratic movement 415–16, 418
Neoplatonism 177 n.35
New Ethnography 97
Newman, David 414
non-naturals 358, 363, 365, 380, 386, 392
non-Western traditions 11, 36–37
noxious capacities 286
nutriment/nutrition 318, 339, 405
nympholepsy 231, 232
Nymphs 229, 230, 231, 232, 233
gardens of 232
Salmacis 230
Thetis
oesophagus 335, 337
‘one’-ness 239–40, 251, 255
opposite treatment (principle of) 295–302, 377–78, 383, 394
optic nerve 280, 281, 282
organ(s) 73, 405, 418, 419–20
organ system
alimentary 327, 329, 334 n.61, 337–41, 349, 350, 352
circulatory 325, 342
endocrine 342
excretory 327, 329–34, 335, 336, 341, 350, 351, 352
integumentary 341
lymphatic 342
muscular 341
nervous 269, 273, 342
psychic 269, 327–34, 339, 347, 349, 351
reproductive 327, 329–34, 335, 336, 341, 350, 351, 352
respiratory 326, 327, 329, 334–37, 338, 340, 341, 350
skeletal 341
Oribasius 261, 366, 369
Orientalism 36
orthopaedics 419
Osborn, David K. 403–6
Osler, William 408, 414
oxygen 342
Padua 359, 372
pain 56–57, 60–61, 62–63, 330 n.39, 334, 351, 389–90
Medieval theories regarding 386
Paris Hippocratics 415
Parmenides
part(s) 237, 239, 242, 243–45, 246, 247, 250–51, 253, 255, 257
affected ( locus affectus ) 134, 168, 170–74, 282–86
bodily 201–2, 206–8, 212, 216, 246, 254, 260
of the head 211
of the soul 201–2, 256
of the whole 201, 209, 237–41, 242, 252–53
of the whole soul-body composite 213
Parthian 321
partiality 210
pathos/pathē 142, 282, 283 affection
Pelops 284 n.70
penetration 401
penis 222, 223, 331–33
personhood, concepts of 36–37
pestilence see plague
phantoms 231, 232
Philhellenism 51
philosopher, in relation to doctor 163–68
philosophy 201, 203, 206, 212, 384
Philotimus 284
phlegm 56–57, 283 n.64, 284, 380, 388, 391
physical ailment, disease 378–79, 383–85, 388, 390, 393
as a defect of the body 212 n.27
physiology 148, 269, 271, 273–82, 283, 287
plague 358, 392
Antonine 358
of St Cyprian 358
of Justinian 358
of Thucydides 358, 372
regulations 372–73
plague tracts, Renaissance 372–73
Plato 5, 155, 163–66, 237, 238 n.2, 242–43, 247, 249, 250–54, 255, 256, 259, 269, 272 n.25, 373, 407, 420
in Medieval philosophy 383–84, 390–91
Timaeus 34, 62–63, 64, 242, 256, 268, 384
world-soul 242, 384
Platonism 66, 68–69, 74, 76–77, 177 n.35
pluralism 4
Plutarch 157, 166, 271 n.14
pneuma (πνεῦµα) chapter 11 passim, 64, 70, 158, 158 n.10, 161, 241–42, 247
as compound of air and fire 241, 259–60, 272
as essential to life 287
luminous (αὐγοειδές) 280, 281
pneuma-like (πνευµατῶδες) 275, 281, 284 n.70
pneumatic elaboration 270 n.8, 274–78, 285, 286, 287
psychic, as exhalation of useful blood 276
psychic (ψυχικόν), as ‘first instrument’ (πρῶτον ὄργανον) of rational soul 270, 273, 277–78, 283, 286
tensional capacity of 272
tensional state of 283
vital (ζωτικόν) 269 n.3, 270 n.8, 272, 274, 275, 391
Pneumatists / Pneumatist School 261, 273 n.29
poison(s) 286, 323 n.18, 387–89
political imagery 6 n.31
politics 11, 12
pornography 30
poroi 147, 149
Praxagoras of Cos 58, 77, 284
prescriptions 341
print, authority of 405
Procopius 369
prophecy 411, 414
prophylaxis 215
pseudo-etymology 330
psychē see soul
psychology, Western 36
psychotherapy 157, 159 therapy
puberty 222, 229
pulmonary vein (ἀρτηρία φλεβώδης) 275
pulse (as diagnostic indicator) 377
purgatory 385, 390
Putnam, Jim 405
qualities 270, 273 n.30, 274
quantum physics 35
Queer criticism 30
rabies 330 n.42, 378
Ragusa 375
Ramazzini, Bernardino 360–61
rationalist doctors 133–34, 139, 143, 148
rationality 177–78
Reading Abbey 386–89
reason (νοῦς) 248, 252, 255, 256, 258 n.48, 278
reasonable (εὔλογος) 274, 278, 283, 288
reception 10, 12, 36, 37, 48, 50–51, 377, 400–1
of ancient science 12, 14, 15, 33, 39, 48
reception studies 10–12, 47–48, 50–51, 53–54
receptivity 358
rectum 325, 329, 330 n.39, 332–33, 335, 341, 350
Red House Australia 405–6
reduction/reductionism 2, 30, 37, 38
reflexology 408
rejuvenation 314–15
religion 379, 382, 384–85, 394
Renaissance epidemics 372–73
plague regulations 372–73
‘Renaissance’, twelfth-century 380
retiform plexus (δικτυοειδὲς πλέγµα) 270 n.8, 275, 285
rhythm 28
Rīmūt-Anu 320, 325
ritual 319, 320, 330, 331 n.44
rivers 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 232, 233, 335
Skamandros 226
Rochberg, Francesca 51
rough artery (τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία) 275 see trachea, bronchus
Rufus 367, 369, 375
For the Layman 366
Medical Questions 360, 366
on plague buboes 366–67
ruinism 39 n.55
Rütten, Thomas 401
Sabinus 367–68
Saint Bartholomew the Apostle 391–92
Saint Edmund the Martyr 384, 396
Saint Hugh of Lincoln (d.1200) 377–78, 383
Saint James the Apostle 386, 388–89, 393
Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170) 382–83, 389–90, 392–94
saints 378, 383, 385–86, 389, 392–96
Salerno 382, 386, 388
Šangû-Ninurta, family of 320, 325, 336
Scorpion 284 n.70
scripts, emotion 89–90, 91–98
seasons 114, 122–23, 128
seat of disease / locus affectus 320
seed 118
seers 228
Sehnsucht 39
Seleucid 321
semantic primitives 97, 105
semen 227, 330–31
Seneca 272
sensation 62, 271, 273, 275, 277, 278, 286, 386, 391
sentient body 287 n.77
Seventh-Day Adventism 411
Severinus, Petrus 415
sex 29–30
sexed body 29–32
sexuality
ancient Greek 401
Sigur, Sandra 408, 412
Simoni, Simone 371
sin 379, 385, 390
penance for 393, 396
skin 323 n.16, 330, 339, 341, 347, 351
skull 283, 337 n.75
sleep 377, 380, 390
inability to 339 n.85
in open air 387–88
nightmares 394
Smuts, Jan Christian 1
Snell, Bruno 26
sociology 12, 28, 34
Socrates 251
holistic practice, activity, inquiry 203, 214–17
Soranus of Ephesus 9, 135, 137–38, 142, 145, 149
Gynaecology 140, 142, 166, 166 n.20, 171, 360
soul 113–14, 117, 127, 242, 247–48, 253, 254, 257
Aristotelian theory of 65–66, 69, 242, 255, 258
Epicurean theories of 67–69, 71–73
health of 163, 165, 211–12, 213, 216–17
in Medieval Christianity 379, 382, 385–86, 390–92, 394–95
Platonic theories of 64–66, 242, 254 n.42, 384
psychosomatic unity 213 n.32
relation to body 154–56, 158–68, 248, 253–54, 303–5
soul-body composite, compound 201, 202, 210–13, 217, 260
the soul-body compound as whole 210–12
soul-person relationship 210
soul’s priority over the body 202, 202 n.3, 205–6, 255–57
Stoic theory of 242, 259–61
tripartition, Platonic 269
well-formed soul, psychic well-orderedness 204–6, 204 n.7, 213
as whole 210–11, 256
soul (ψυχή)
affections (πάθη) of 157, 161
character (ἦθος) of 159, 162, 165
leading faculty of: see hēgemonikon
soul
specialization 417–18
spermatic principles (σπερµατικοὶ λόγοι) 261
spider 284 n.79
spinal cord 275
spirit 402, 409, 411 pneuma
spleen 321
sports medicine 418
Staden, Heinrich von 50–51
state of equilibrium 201 balance
sterility 229
stickiness (γλισχρότης, τὸ γλίσχρον) 239, 245–46
Still, Andrew Taylor 417
sting-ray 284 n.70
Stoics, Stoicism 166 n.20, 177, 177 n.34, 237, 241–42, 259, 269, 270 n.7, 272, 283, 286
cohesive cause 241–43, 259–61
theory of total blending 71, 259–60
stomach 57, 269 n.2, 323–24, 326, 327, 328, 329, 332, 333, 334, 337–38, 340, 348, 389
Strife (Νεῖκος) 244
stroke 324, 327–28, 339, 348, 349
suicide
female, by drowning 228–29, 230, 231
female, by hanging 228–29
sunlight 281
superfoods 405
surgery 140, 419
sweat 330
Sydenham, Thomas 415
sympathetic instrument (ὁµοιοπαθὲς ὄργανον) 281
sympathy 9, 54–56
of bodily parts 56–64, 74–77
of body and soul 65–74
of the cosmos 49
symptoms 58–59, 134, 137–39, 141, 144–45
synchrony 28
syncopē (συγκοπή) 285
synechon (συνέχον) 237, 241–43, 245, 249–50, 255–56, 260 causes of cohesion
synergy 237
teeth 323, 338, 352
telos 255, 269 n.1
testicles 321, 331–32
thalamus 280
Themison of Laodicea 135, 148, 149 n.32
therapy; therapeutic(s) 133–51, 157 n.7, 159, 167–68, 174, 319, 321, 334 n.61, 336, 341, 342, 343, 347 psychotherapy; treatments
Thessalus of Tralles 135 n.4, 143, 146, 149
Thetis 230–31
thinking body 279 brain
thymos 196–95
thymus gland 194–95
Timaeus 268, 384
torpedo-fish 284 n.70
torpor (κάρος) 283
totalitarianism 2 n.12
totality of totalities (ὅλον ὅλων) 268
tourism 403
trachea 275, 335
tradition 402, 404, 418, 419
tragedy 185
interaction with medicine 185–88, 191–92
treatments 407, 413, 416, 420
trepanation, of skull 283
Trinity, holy 379
triplokia of the body, conceived by Erasistratus 272
truth 404
unifier (ἑνοποιοῦν) 239, 243, 244, 255
unmixed (ἄµικτον) 258 n.48, 273, 287
urethra 332
urine 331
uterus 223, 224, 227, 229 n.34, 325, 329, 330 n.42, 333, 334 womb
Uruk, city of 319, 320
vademecum 188, 336
value 26
varicose veins 334, 350
venomous creatures 284 n.70, 286
ventricles of the brain (anterior, middle, posterior) 275, 277–78, 279, 280–81, 282–83, 284, 286, 386, 391
Venus of Lespugue 30–31
Venus of Willendorff 31–32
vertigo (σκότωµα) 285
vessels 57–59, 60–61, 221, 222–23, 224, 226, 232, 246 n.23, 271, 272, 285
veterinary 347
virtue 251, 393
moral 215 n.39
a particular 201
traditional definitions of 214 n.33
vision, visual capacity 280, 281, 282 n.61, 392
Vitalism 33–34
vitreous humour of eye 280 n.52
Vitruvius 368
healthy planning 368
voluntary motion 269, 273, 275, 277, 286
vomiting 328, 330, 340, 347, 388–39
Warner, John Harley 402, 410 n.48, 416
water 221–33, 238, 244–46, 252, 259–60, 377
cycle of 225
Weisz, George 416
well-being
of a bodily part 201
of a body 201, 261
complete 207, 209
partial 207
of the parts 208–9
psychic 213
of something else 211
of the whole 213–14
wells 223, 228–29, 230–32, 233
in the Athenian agora 231
Western medicine 11–12, 33
White, Ellen G. 411
whole(s) 237–39, 241, 242, 243 n.17, 250, 252, 257, 270, 281
more than sum of parts 237, 239–41, 269, 270, 286–87
‘the whole’ (τὸ πᾶν) 239, 270
wholeness 25–26, 35, 202, 210–11
wholism 11 n.55, 410–12
Whorton, James 404, 417
Wikipedia
Hippocrates page 406
as a source 410
Wild Rose College 410, 411
Wilder Penfield 345
William of Norwich 387
wind, flatulence 325, 329, 330 n.39, 335
wisdom 203–4, 204 n.6, 206, 208
womb 221, 222, 226 uterus
woman chapter 9 passim
parthenos 223, 227, 228, 230, 232, 233
gynē 223, 227, 228, 230, 232, 233
wool 222
World War I 415, 418, 419
yoga 408
Zalmoxis and Zalmoxian medical art 201–2, 209–10, 213–14, 215 n.39
Zodiac Man / Homo signorum 343–47
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Series:  Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 53
Cover Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception
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