MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

266 Aristotle and his school of , ‘right proportion’, between the hotness of the seed and the coldness of the menstrual b ...

AristotleOn Sterility 267 go through a questionnaire: is the womb healthy? Does the woman secrete fluid normally? Is the mouth o ...

268 Aristotle and his school of the highest possible significance: several Hippocratic writings reflect uncertainty and hesitati ...

AristotleOn Sterility 269 wide-ranging account of sterility inGeneration of Animals( 746 b 16 ff.), where we do find a discussio ...

270 Aristotle and his school known in the Lyceum, as is shown by the abundant use made of them in the first books of the extantP ...

AristotleOn Sterility 271 why menstrual bloodismentioned in ‘Hist. an. 10 ’, but only in the context of irregularities in menstr ...

272 Aristotle and his school has been mixed...if the emission from both has not been mixed’),^57 but this is in a rather special ...

AristotleOn Sterility 273 not constitute the female contribution in a material sense, the mechanism of its emission does contrib ...

274 Aristotle and his school been in the air. Contrary to F ̈ollinger,^66 I find it not at all difficult to imagine that inGener ...

AristotleOn Sterility 275 % +which is mentioned in the same ancient catalogues that also list History of Animalsas having n ...

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chapter 10 Galen’s use of the concept of ‘qualified experience’ in his dietetic and pharmacological works 1 introduction It is w ...

280 Late antiquity indispensable instruments for the acquisition of knowledge and under- standing.^3 To be sure, he sometimes sa ...

Galen on qualified experience 281 It seems that this concept has not received the attention it deserves.^8 In fact it is a genui ...

282 Late antiquity hotly debated question of the presence, or absence, of pharmacological ‘experiments’ in Galen’s works or – as ...

Galen on qualified experience 283 whether all olive oil is irritating to the eyes should be decided on the basis of experience r ...

284 Late antiquity be executed with due consideration of, or at least not without, certain    – ‘qualifications’, ‘distinc ...

Galen on qualified experience 285 to, but occasionally also as supplementary to, inference (  )by reason.^17 What does ...