General index 401
Ionic dialect 23
irrational 238 ff.; nature 240 , 246
irrational people 257
irritable people 149 , 212
Jaeger, W. 95
John Philoponus 14 ; medical ideas in
10 , 16
judgement 176
katharsis 131
knowledge, nature of medical 28
krasis 12 , 151 , 157 , 159
Kudlien, F. 2 n. 2
Kuhn, J.-H. ̈ 87
laxative 78 , 82
left side of the body 52
leptomereia 289 , 308
lethargy 123
life, causes of 11
lifestyle, of patient 26 , 81 , 98 , 118 , 128 , 287
linguistics 1 , 7 ; ancient 14
literacy 31 , 37 ff.
location of mind 26 , 224 ; of disease in the body
120 ff.
locomotion 25
logic 14 , 123
longevity 11
looseness, state of 325 f.
love 236
luck 106
Lyceum, Diocles and 95 – 6
madness 165 ; in relation to genius 18
magic 5 , 7 – 8 , 20 , 33 , 45 ff., 63 , 131
magicians 20 , 57 , 65 – 6
male, contribution to generation 11
man, nature of 11
mania 123 , 156
manic-passionate expressions of melancholy
166
market place, medical 7 , 33
master craftsman 195
materialism 128 , 165 n. 89 , 236
mathematicians 14 , 30
mean 158 , 161
mechanical explanation in Aristotle 182 ff., 211 ,
213 , 216 , 231
mechanics 28 , 264
medical examination 266
medical literature on dreams 181 , 192
medicalisation 118
medicine, diversity in 5 , 18
medieval medicine 14
melancholia 123
melancholics 139 ff., 181 , 187 , 190 , 211 – 12 , 229 ,
241 , 253 f.
melancholy, Aristotle on 17 , 139 ff.
Meletius of Sardes 16
memory 8 , 11 , 17 , 128 , 175 , 216 , 223 , 228
Meno 264
menstruation 180 , 259 ; menstrual blood 270 ff.
mental apprehension 326
mental faculties 126
mental illness 10 , 12 , 26
metaphor 165 , 232
meteorology 14 , 24
Methodism 12 , 28 – 9 , 119 , 299 ff.
methodology 12
midwives 269
mind, location of 119 ff., 224
mind–body distinction 27 , 119 ff.
mineralogy 24 , 96
mixture 151 , 157 , 287 ;see also krasis
Mnesitheus 12 , 78 , 88 , 111 , 117
moisture 142 , 229
mola uteri 259 – 60 , 269 – 70 , 272 f.
monstrosities 11
moon 62
moral error 20 , 66 – 7
moral qualification 244
moral values 5 , 6
motor signals in the body 129
movement 220 , 223 ; principle of 245
movements, of sense perception 183
mules 11narcotics 178
narratology 30
natural 233 ; law 45
natural philosophy 11 ; 123 see also phusis and
physics
natural scientist 194
naturalistic theology 45 – 6 , 62 , 67
nature 68 , 238 – 9 , 257 , 296 ; Aristotle’s concept of
212 , 214 ; concept of 12 ; contrary to 230 ;of
disease 49 ff.; of foodstuff 78 ; formal 235 ;
human 157 ; material 235 ; study of 10 , 103 , 175 ,
207 ; theory of, Diocles on 24 ;see also phusis
Near Eastern medicine 4
Nemesius of Emesa 10 , 16
nervous system 3 , 16 , 28
Neuhauser, J. ̈ 234
Nicander 34
Ninos 48 n. 10
non-Western medicine 4
nousin Aristotle 122 , 130 , 176 , 222 , 233 , 243 , 258 ;
in sleep 171
number theory 9 n. 17