General index 403
pulse 10 , 27
punishment, disease as 45
purgation 52
purification 20 , 47 n. 10 , 63 , 153 ; divine
66 – 7
Pythagoras 13 , 20 ; medical interests of 10 ,
103
Pythagoreanism 172 , 208
qualification 280 ff.
qualities, elementary 12 , 19 ; primary and
secondary 89 – 90 , 123 ; of substances 79
question and answer structure 36
quick-witted people 213 , 228 – 9
rapid eye movements 185
ratio 321 ff.
Rationalists 25
rationality 9 n. 17 , 46 , 58 , 238 , 258 ;ofman 208 ,
216 ; of Greek medicine 2 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 19
reason, vs. experience 29
reasoning 85 , 219 , 242 , 246 , 279 ff., 321 ff.
reception studies 31
recollection 141 , 175 , 216 , 223 , 229 , 234
reflection 211
refutation, method of 280
regimen in health, Diocles on 24 – 5
region 287
relevance, criterion of 306
religion 63 , 169 ; relation to medicine 20 – 1 ,
67 – 8
religious healing 5 , 7
religious thought 45
reproduction 10 – 12 , 259 ff.
residue 143 , 152 , 196 ;see also peritt ̄oma
respiration 8 , 10 , 11
rest, state of 219
retrospective diagnosis 3
rhetoric 6 , 30 – 1 , 33 , 123
right side of the body 52
ring composition 39
ritual 4 , 48 , 67 , 131
Roman medicine 7
rootcutters 19 , 110
ruling part of soul 11 , 119 ff.
sacrifice 71
Scepticism 28 , 75 , 80 , 97 , 121 , 305 ; and medicine
13
Schrijvers, P. H. 302
Scythians 56 , 191
season 81 , 98 , 127 , 287 , 303
sects, medical 12 , 28
seed, origin of 11 , 12 ; female 260 , 270 ; male 260 ,
269 , 273
self-control, lack of 148 ff.
self-definition, in Greek science 41
sense perception 11 , 25 , 129 , 172 , 175 , 210 , 226 ;
disturbance of 224 ; principle of in Aristotle
147
Serapion 104
seventh-month children 11
sex differentiation 210
Sextus Empiricus 10 , 13 , 303
sexual differentiation 261
sexual intercourse 259 , 266
sexuality 24 , 26 , 110
shamanism 173
sharpness of sight 211 , 213 ff.
shrewdness (deinot ̄es) 215 , 232
Sigerist, H. 3
sign (s ̄emeion) 12 , 169 , 188 , 267 ; of failure to
conceive 271 ; dreams as signs 192 ff.
significatio 312 , 316
similarity, perception of 144 – 5 , 165
Simplicius 16
skin 230
slavery 214
sleep 11 , 128 , 142 f., 171 ff., 175 ; Aristotle’s theory of
8 , 133 , 175 – 7 , 208 , 210 , 216 , 218 , 220 , 224 , 230 ;
sleepwalking 178 ; stages of 181 , 185
slow-witted people 213 , 228
smell 226 – 7
sobriety 208
social history of medicine 4 , 7 ; of philosophy 9
social position of healers 6 , 7
Socrates 24 , 156 , 165
sophists 18 , religious beliefs of 46
Soranus 8 , 29 , 299 ff.
soul 12 , 127 – 8 , 262 ; in Aristotle 170 ; faculties of
122 , 207 ; part connected withphusis 17 ; parts
of 179 ; principle of movement in 245 ;
relation to body 27 , 124 ff.; ruling part of 11 ,
119 ff.
sound effects 36
spasm 317
specialisation 13 , 118
species 316 , 319
speech event 32
sports 26
sprinkling, ritual 66
stability, principles of 13
starting points (archai) 82 , 92 n. 41
sterility 11 , 17 , 259 ff.
Stoicism 11 , 27 – 8 , 122 , 302
Strato 10 , 16 , 27
Sudhoff, K. 3
suicide 156
suitability (epit ̄edeiot ̄es) 216
summetria 266