MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

286 Late antiquity ‘powers’ (  ) is likely to bring many errors with it.^20 For a gener- alising statement about the suppo ...

Galen on qualified experience 287 In the rest of the chapter, Galen further lists a number of   that are relevant to the q ...

288 Late antiquity some drugs work ‘in virtue of their whole essence’ (’# % (), others in virtue of one, or several ...

Galen on qualified experience 289 variations in the quantity and the proportion in which a substance (or a combination of variou ...

290 Late antiquity most of the qualifications can be reduced, is to distinguish essential (’ H!) from accidental (1  & ...

Galen on qualified experience 291 particular kind of pain (this raises the question of the empirical basis of Galen’s physiology ...

292 Late antiquity andOn the Sects, rather points in a different direction.^54 The fundamental difference between Galen and the ...

Galen on qualified experience 293 set of conditions and circumstances, actually enables the pharmacologist to carry out reproduc ...

294 Late antiquity distinction Galen makes between foodstuff, drug and poison depends on this very issue, for this is afunctiona ...

Galen on qualified experience 295 potential or virtual states present in the substance whose actualisation is dependent on the c ...

296 Late antiquity changedinto something else. While the physiological description of these processes of change in terms of qual ...

Galen on qualified experience 297  !) (*C  ), if applicable, would refernotjust to a few exceptional cases in whic ...

298 Late antiquity may suggest the idea of a systematical elimination of all the other incidental variables that may interfere w ...

chapter 11 The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus: some epistemological issues Caelius Aurelianus’ Methodism is often taken for gra ...

300 Late antiquity To be sure, there is no question about Caelius’ actually belonging to the Methodist school, to which he frequ ...

The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus 301 their erroneous beliefs and their ‘looseness’ of doctrine.^10 Whether these criticisms i ...

302 Late antiquity To be sure, Caelius does not mention any Methodist, or indeed any other medical writer, known to be later tha ...

The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus 303 from Soranus and from external evidence provided by Galen, Celsus and Sextus Empiricus – ...

304 Late antiquity remarkably under-represented;^32 and, as John Vallance has pointed out,^33 the Methodists’ indifference to th ...

The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus 305 try to compare Caelius Aurelianus with Soranus (or with the fragments of other Methodist ...