General index 397
astronomers 30
atheism 46 , 62
Athenaeus of Attalia 13 n. 20
Attic dialect 24 , 74
audience, of medical/philosophical texts 30 ,
257 – 8
authority 6 , 30
authorship, multiple 260 n. 4
autopsy 130
awakening 220
axioms 279
Babylonian medicine 9 n. 17
balance 230 ; between forces in the body 130
Balme, D. 260 – 74
bandages, Diocles on 24 , 110
B ̈aumker, C. 234
Bellerophontes 156
bile 152 ; black 140 ff., 159 ; yellow 140 , 153
bio-archaeology 1
biology 206 – 7
blending (krasis) 12
blood 129 , 130 – 1 , 132 , 135 ; 166 ; in Aristotle 140 ,
153 , 176 , 185 , 218 , 220 , 225 , 230 ; blood ritual
131 ; circulation 3 n. 3 ; cognitive role of 26 ;
vessels 142 , 178
bloodletting 112 – 13
body, relation to soul 124 ff.; role in mental
processes 17 , 141 – 2 , 164 ff., 207 ff., 231 , 236 ; role
in sleep 171 ; studies into ‘the body’ 8
Boerhaave, H. 3
bones 12
Borysthenes 187
botany, Diocles on 24
brain 20 , 28 , 119 , 126 , 129 , 131 – 2 , 178 , 224 , 228 ;as
cause of disease 51 , 59 ; cognitive role of 16 , 26
breath 158
Caelius Aurelianus 8 , 11 , 29 , 41 , 299 ff.;
epistemological views 12 , 299 ff.;Gynaecia 301 ;
as a source 107 , 119 , 135
captatio benevolentiae 40
cardiocentric theory 125
case histories 39
catalogue structure 34 – 5
catarrhs, Diocles on 110
causal explanation 12 , 25 , 29 , 85 , 261 ; in dietetics
91 – 2 ; of disease 90 , 115 ;see alsoaetiology
cause 9 n. 17 , 45 , 59 , 132 , 175 , 188 , 259 ff., 289 ;
additional 235 ; antecedent 303 , 312 ff.; concept
of 12 – 13 ; in definition 318 ; of disease 10 , 195 ,
305 , 311 ; and effect 68 , 79 , 89 ; of effects of
foods and drugs 78 ff.; of failure to conceive
271 ; final 179 ; four Arist. causes 177 , 179 ;
hidden 311 ; vs. symptom 27
celestial bodies 13 , 55
Celsus 10 , 303 ; on early history of medicine
102 ff.
central sense faculty 175 – 6 , 183
chance 248 – 9
change 11 ; principles of 13
character, affected by physical factors 141 , 158 , 225
children 178 , 181 , 218 – 19 , 223
Chinese medicine 5
cholera 310 , 318
choleric 52
Christianity 302
chronic disease 116
chronic fatigue syndrome 117
Chrysippus (med.) 104 , 110
class distinction between doctors 195 n. 46
classification 12
cleansing 46 ;see alsopurification
Clearchus 27
climate 81 , 98 , 127 , 303
climatic factors 49 , 53 , 68
clinical practice 13 , 18
clystering 113
Cnidian sentences 38
cognition 25 , 119 ff.
coincidence 188 , 201
cold, quality of 12 , 19 , 89 , 143 , 220 , 225 , 228 , 230 ,
236 , 315 ; as cause of disease 51 , 55
colour, perception of 180
common, to soul and body 175 , 209
common opinions 94 n. 43
common sense faculty 170 , 175 , 221 – 2 , 227
communication of medical ideas 6 , 14 , 24
communication studies 30
comparative study of medical history 4 , 6
compartmentalisation, of medicine 110 , 118
competence, claims to 6 , 26
complementary medicine 4
concentration, mental 229
conception 271 f.
confidentiality 26
conjecture 145 , 280
consciousness 120 , 127 , 171 – 2
constituents, of nature of foodstuffs 83
constitution, of body 52 , 81 , 98 , 213 , 225 , 235 ,
238 , 246 , 303 ; types 140 ff., 148 , 151
contemplation 244 n. 24
convalescence 117
cookery 26 , 110
cooling 133 – 4
corpuscular theory 29
Cos 22 , 27
cosmology, framework to medicine 18
courage 225
cult, religious 47 – 8 , 67