General index
abortive 102
Academy, early 92
acoustics 264
actuality (Arist.) 295 ; first 177 , 213
administration of drugs, mode of 288
aetiology 90 n. 37 ;see alsocausal explanation
A ̈etius (doxographus) 11
age, of patient 52 , 81 , 98 , 152 , 213 , 224 , 228 , 230 ;
see alsoold age, children
Aias 156
air 19 , 126 , 132 , 145 ; divinity of 55
aitia(cause) 12 ;aitios 54 , 59 , 132 ;see also prophasis
akrasia 148 ff., 220
Alcibiades 166
Alcmaeon of Croton 13 , 18 , 22 , 39 ;
encephalocentric theory of 125 , 130
Alexander of Aphrodisias 10 , 16 , 28
Alexandria 14 , 16 , 27
alternative medicine 4
analogy 12 ; medicine used as 264
anaphora 36
anatomy 10 , 25 ; Aristotle on 263 ; comparative 14 ;
Diocles on 24 , 26 , 110
Anaxagoras 18 , 19 , 22 ; on sterility 17
Anaximander 46 , 50 n. 14
Anaximenes 19 , 55
animals 175 , 187 , 207 , 226 ; intelligence of 226 ,
231 – 2 ; sexual behaviour of 259
Anonymus Londiniensis 11 , 16 , 23 , 264
Anonymus Parisinus 90 n. 37
antecedent causeseecause
anthropinos ̄ 48 ff., 52 ff., 91
anthropocentrism 259 , 262 , 268
anthropology, medical 4 ff.
antithesis 36 , 40
aorta 119 , 130
aphoristic style 39
Apollonius the Empiricist 104
apotropaeic ritual 45
Arabic dream theory 171
Aratus 34
archaeology 1 , 7
archives 38
area, geographical 81 , 98
Aristotle, cardiocentric theory 125 ; development
in his ideas 206 – 7 , 243 ; on epilepsy 133 ;on
good fortune 238 ff.; influence on Galen 293 ;
on the limits of causal explanation 92 ; medical
interests of 10 – 11 , 14 ff., 154 f., 212 , 230 , 262 ff.;
on melancholy 139 ff.; on the mind 130 , 206 ff.;
on oral teaching 36 , 40 ; organisation of
knowledge 39 ; relationship to Diocles 24 ,
95 ff.; on relationship between medicine and
philosophy 13 ff., 123 , 193 ff., 263 ; on sleep and
dreams 169 ff.; on sterility 17 , 259 ff.; style of
his writings 31 , 34 ; on soul functions 122 ;
theological ideas 69 n. 60 , 238 ff.; on
undemonstrables 82
Aristotle, biological works 261 ; medical works
262 ff.; zoological works 206 , 231 ; works:
Dissections 263 ;Eudemian Ethics 17 ;
Generation of Animals 260 ff., 264 ff., 272 ff.;
History of Animals 15 , 175 , 259 ff.;Medical
Problems 263 ;Nicomachean Ethics 95 , 210 , 262 ;
On Breath 16 ;On Divination in Sleep 17 , 21 ,
144 ff., 156 , 170 , 186 ff., 257 f.;On Dreams 145 ff.,
170 , 175 , 179 ff.;On Health and Disease 196 ,
263 ;On Remedies 106 , 264 ;On Sense
Perception 211 , 216 ;On Sleep and Waking 133 ,
175 – 7 ;On the Soul 175 , 206 ff., 209 ff., 231 , 262 ;
Parts of Animals 175 ;Parva naturalia 8 , 11 , 175 ,
193 , 263 , 206 ff., 209 ff., 231 ;Physiognomonica
236 ;Problemata physica 16 , 27 , 139 ff. 155 ff.,
231 , 263 , 265 , 270 , 273 ;Rhetoric 210
Aristotelian style of reasoning 80 , 82 , 93
Aristotelianism 14
arteries, as distinct from veins 27
Asclepiades of Bithynia 11 , 104 , 306 f., 310 , 319 ,
321 , 326
Asclepius 169 ; cult of 63
Asia 225
asthmatic complaints 131396