402 General index
nutrition 177
nutritious 78
nutritive part of soul 235
observable 290 – 1 , 306 ff.
observation 10 , 12 ;see alsoempirical method
offspring, multiple 260 , 274
old age 10 , 11 , 224
old people 213
olive oil 24 , 110 n. 19
optic nerve 125
optics 264
orality 31 , 36 ff.; oral presentation 35
Oribasius 11
Origen 88
Orphism 171 – 2
pain 148 , 181 , 236
palaeopathology 7
palliative care 114
palpitations 131
parallelism 36
paranoia 224
Parmenides 20 – 1 , 34 ; medical interests of 10
particular 52 , 81 ; vs. general 10
parts, affected 303 – 4
passages in the body (poroi) 128 – 9 , 132
pathology 14 , 24 , 110
pathos 148 , 176
patient 101
perception, in Aristotle 17 , 210 ff.
Peripatetics 15 – 16 , 27
peritt ̄oma 143 , 152
peritton, to 18 , 157 , 161 , 163 , 165 , 167 , 221 n. 55
phantasia 149 ff., 165 , 182 ; thought dependent on
218 , 233
pharmacology 14 , 29 , 104 , 111 – 12 , 279 ff., 305 ,
323 f.
Philistion 22
Philolaus 10
philosophia, Greek concept of 19
philosophy 106 ; study of 7 , 8 ff.; overlap with
medicine 10 ff.; of mind 206
Philotimus, on the use of experience 99
phlegm 131 , 134 ; in Aristotle 140 , 153
phlegmatic 52
phrenes 120
phrenitis 119 ff., 123
phron ̄esis 127 , 163 , 215 , 232
phusa 132
phusiologia 122
phusis 12 , 19 , 52 ff., 57 , 73 , 81 , 82 – 3 , 239 , 257 ;
human 141 , 144 f., 151 , 160 – 1
physics 11 , 15 , 175
physiology 10 , 14 , 24 , 90
piety 63
Pindar 170
pistis 12
plants 13 , 172 , 175 , 207
Plato 12 , 34 , 40 , 156 , 165 ; on dietetics 118 ;on
dreams 170 , 173 ; medical interests of 10 , 11 ;
religious ideas 67 , 69 n. 60 ; on wandering
uterus 261 ; works:Timaeus 11 , 12 , 125 ;Republic
21
plausible, the 303
pleasure 148 – 9 , 181 , 236
Pleistarchus 77
Pliny the Elder 97
pneuma 129 , 132 , 145 f., 148 , 158 , 218 , 221 , 230 ,
260 , 270 , 273 , 307 f.; in Diocles 24 , 26 , 90 ;
psychic 134
Pneumatists 321
poetry, as medium for communication of
knowledge 34
poison 282 , 288 , 294 ; Diocles on 24 ; poisoning
by doctors 102
polemical writing 88 , 204
pollution (miasma) 20 , 60 , 63 , 64
positivism 3 , 9 n. 17
possession 63 , 131
postnatal purgation 52
postulate 19 , 84 , 106 ;see also hupothesis
potentiality 295
power (dunamis) 90 ; of foodstuffs 77 ff., 280
practical science 262 , 268
practitioners, medical 6
Praxagoras 23 , 27 , 104 ff., 110 ; cardiocentric
theory 125 ; on epilepsy 134 ;On Treatments
106 ; reception of Aristotelian ideas in 16 ;on
the use of experience 99
prayer 5 , 71 – 2
pregnancy 260 , 273
prenatal purgation 52
preparation, of foods 287
presentism 3
Presocratic philosophy 19 , 62 ; concept of the
divine in 50
prevention of disease 25 , 118
principles (archai) 11
prognostics 24 , 110
progressivism 4
proof (pistis) 12
prophasis 12 , 49 , 51 , 52 ff., 54 , 59 , 68 , 73 , 132
prophecy 232 ; powers of 144 ff., 148 , 156 ; in sleep
172 , 186 ff., 241 , 246
prose writing 34 , 38
providence, divine 69
psuch ̄e 127
psychosomatic disease 123
psychology 206 – 7