400 General index
Gourevitch, D. 316
gradualist view on intelligence 222 , 231
grammar, ancient 14
Greeks 225
guardian deity 239
gymnastics 26
gynaecology, Diocles on 24 , 110
habit 164 , 208 n. 10 , 254 f.
haematocentric theory 125 , 132
haemorrhage 311 , 315 , 325
half-sleep 181 , 185
hands, human 216 , 227 ; clenching of 131
harm, iatrogenic 101 ;todono 26
harmonics 264
Harvey 3
health, causes of 11 , 194 ; regimen in 110 , 113 ff.;
restoration of 114 ff.
healthcare system 5 , 6
heart 119 , 122 , 126 , 129 , 133 – 5 , 177 , 228 ; chambers
of 178 ; cognitive role of 26 ; left ventricle of 130
heat 158 ; 218 , 236 ; bodily 129 , 273 ;see alsohot
Hecataeus 23 , 39
Heracles 156
Heracles, Pillars of 187 – 8 ; 202
Heraclides of Tarentum 104 , 306 , 323
Heraclitus 18 , 22 , 172 ; on dreams 170
herbs 24
hereditary aspects of disease 131
heritage 213
Hermotimus 173
Herodotus 23 , 38 – 9 ; on dreams 170
Herophilus 7 , 27 – 8 , 104 , 110 ; on causation 12 ;
interest in ‘physics’ 11 ; reception of
Aristotelian ideas in 16
Hesiod 50 n. 14
Hippocrates 3 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 21 – 5 , 103 ; Diocles
presented as second to 74 ; as represented by
Galen 327
Hippocratic medicine 20 ; diversity within 5
Hippocratic writers, on body–soul relationship
124 ; development of epistemological concepts
12 ; on melancholy 140 , 154 – 5 ; on soul
functions 122 ; on status of the medical art
105 ff.; therapeutic principles of 26 ;on
therapeutics 110 ff.; views on location of
mental functions 26 – 7
Hippocratic writings 2 , 13 , 19 , 34 ff., 102 ;
anonymity of 23 ; diversity within 21 ff.;
differences with regard to Aristotle 263 , 267 ff.,
269 ; known to Aristotle 14 , 16 ; similarities
with Aristotle 260 , 274 ; works:Airs Waters
Places 21 , 34 , 56 , 191 ;Aphorisms 75 n. 5 ;
Epidemics 2 , 31 – 2 , 34 , 39 ;Oath 2 , 5 , 21 , 26 ,
101 – 2 ;On Affections 112 ;On Ancient Medicine
2 , 19 , 36 , 75 – 6 , 86 ff., 122 , 282 ;On the Art of
Medicine 18 , 33 , 36 , 269 ;On Breaths 18 , 33 , 36 ,
125 , 132 f, 134 , 269 ;On Diseases 1 36 , 115 , 125 ;
On Diseases 2 115 , 125 ;On Diseases 3 115 ;On
Diseases of Women 35 ;On Fleshes 9 n. 17 , 12 , 18 ,
130 , 195 ;On Generation / On the Nature of the
Child/On Diseases 4 17 , 269 ;On the Heart 125 ,
130 ;On Internal Affections 115 ;On the Nature
of Man 9 n. 17 , 12 , 18 , 34 , 140 , 153 , 155 ;On the
Nature of the Woman 35 On Places in Man 18 ;
On Regimen 5 , 12 , 18 , 22 , 27 , 71 – 2 , 75 – 6 , 86 ff.,
111 , 122 , 127 , 169 – 70 , 172 , 175 , 191 , 195 , 198 ff.,
230 – 1 ;On the Sacred Disease 2 , 5 , 9 n. 17 , 17 ,
19 , 34 , 36 , 45 – 73 , 123 , 131 – 2 , 134 , 156 , 191 ;
Pharmakitis 112
historiography, ancient 14
Homer 50 n. 14 , 182
homosexuality 302
hopelessness, of cases of disease 57 , 71 n. 62 , 102 ,
115 – 16
hot, elementary quality of 12 , 19 , 89 , 225 , 228 , 230
human, nature of disease 48 ff., 51 ff., 57 – 8
humours 9 n. 17 , 12 , 24 , 27 , 90 , 159 ; theory of
140 – 1 , 153
hupothesis 19 , 122
hygiene 14 , 24 – 6
hylomorphism 173 , 199
Hymes, D. 32 – 3ileus 107
imagination 141 , 144 ff., 149 ff., 223 – 4 ; in Aristotle
17 , 170 , 175 , 179 , 182
impiety (asebeia) 46 , 48 n. 10 , 62 – 3 , 69
impotence 56 , 191
imprints 216
impulses (hormai) 240 , 246
incantations 63 , 131
incidental perception 234
incurability 62
Indian medicine 5
indication (endeixis) 78 , 282 , 303 ;(tekm ̄erion) 12 ,
169
indigestion 315
inference from signs 13 , 24 , 27 , 29 ; inferential
reasoning 279 , 282 , 315
infertility, female 259 ff., 262 ff.; male 259 , 268
inherited features 11 , 265
insects 177
instability 158 ff., 161 , 166
institutional history of medicine 4
intellectual history 4
intellectuals, religious beliefs of 47 , 70
intelligence 55 , 120 , 166 ; degrees of 222 , 225 , 228
intuition 231 – 2
invisible 84 , 309