398 General index
cultural history of medicine 4 , 7 ; of philosophy 9
curability of disease 50 n. 16 , 61 , 71 , 115
daemons 63 , 239
daimonios 191 ;daimonia phusis 191 , 246 – 7
data-collection 261
death, causes of 11
definition 12 , 29 , 232 , 279 , 315 ff.; of dream 184 ff.
Defoe, D. 3
deformations 213 , 235 , 230 , 265
Deichgr ̈aber, K. 3
deism 69
deliberation 246
Demeter 53 n. 22
Democritus 172 ; 181 , 323 ; anatomical research of
13 ; on dreams 170 ; 201 ff.; medical interests of
10 , 103 ; on sterility 17
demonstration 315
deontology 4 , 5 , 101 ff.
depression 156 ; depressive-cold expressions of
melancholy 166
Dervenyi papyrus 21
descent 224
description 316
desire, concept of 17 , 148
determinism 69
deviations 211 , 265
diagnostic character 267
dialect, Attic 24 , 74 ; Ionic 23
dialectics 121 , 315 ; dialectical nature of Aristotle’s
works 203 ; presentation 35
dianoia 128 , 219 , 222 ff., 225 , 229 , 233 – 4 , 236
diaphragm 120 , 126
diarrhoea 131
Dicaearchus 27
Diels, H. 3 , 33
diet 52 , 305 , 326
dietetics 5
dietetics 76 – 100 , 104 , 123 , 279 ff.; Diocles on 24 ;
division within 104 – 5 , 110 – 11 , 113 ff.; for the
treatment of disease 114 , 117 f.
differentia 316
digestion 133 ; Diocles on 24 , 110
Diller, H. 3
Diocles 5 , 7 , 8 , 23 – 7 , 40 , 123 , 231 n. 81 ;
cardiocentric theory 125 ; on causal
explanation 85 ff.; criticised by Caelius
Aurelianus 322 f.; development of
epistemological concepts 12 ; on epilepsy 134 ;
familiarity with Hippocratic writings 74 – 5 ;
interest in ‘physics’ 11 ; on location of the mind
129 ; on method of dietetics 74 – 100 ; on oral
teaching 36 ; relation to Aristotle and
Theophrastus 14 , 16 , 95 ff.; reputation 74 ;on
sterility 17 ; therapeutic views of 102 , 104 ff.,
117 ff.; on the use of experience 99 ; works:
Affection, Cause, Treatment 90 , 106 , 115 ;
Archidamos 110 n. 19 ;On Treatments 106
Diogenes of Apollonia 48 n. 11 , 55 ; on the use of
experience 99
Dionysus 53 n. 22 , 166
diorismos 280 ff.
discourse analysis 4 , 30 – 1
discovery, method of 280
disease 218 , 224 , 228 , 236 ; causes of 11 ; as distinct
from constitution 151 , 154 , 156 ; essence of 24 ;
types of 12
disturbance, of vital functions 266
diuretic 78
divination 161 n. 78 , 169 ; rational 254 ff.
divine, the 57 – 8 , 238 ; character of disease 45 ff.;
48 ff., 54 ff., 68 – 70 ; concern (theia epimeleia)
243 , 247 ; dispensation (theia moira) 60 , 67 ,
242 , 257 ; intervention 5 , 17 , 20 ; movement in
the soul 238 , 246 ; principle in man 247 , 250 ;
role in healing 5 , 62 , 71 ;see alsogods
division 12 ; of medicine 104 , 110 ff.
doctor, duties of 101 ff.; gentleness of 26 ;
judgement of 116 – 17 ; mentioned by Aristotle
193 ; professional status of 13 ; vis-`a-vis
‘students of nature’ 11
doctor–patient relationship 101 – 2
Dogmatists 12 , 25 , 28 , 77 – 9 , 98 – 9 , 102 , 279 ,
315 f., 319 , 321 ff.
dogs 189
doxography 11 , 14 , 41 , 121 , 270 , 302 n. 18 , 321
dreamlessness 181
dreams 8 , 11 , 17 , 128 , 143 ff., 241 ; activity of
dreaming 216 ; classification of 190 – 1 ; contents
of 171 ; erotic dreams 259 , 271 ; (medical)
interpretation of 169 , 171 ; origin of 182 – 3
drinks 10 , 14
dropsy 269 n. 44
drugs 10 , 14 , 62 , 282 , 288 , 294 , 326 ; distinct from
foods 99
drugsellers 19
drunkenness 145 , 148 , 181 , 208 , 218 , 220 , 230 ,
236 , 315
dry 19
dualism 128 , 172 , 198 – 9
dunamis 12 , 295 ff.;see alsopower
dwarfs 178 , 212 , 221 ff., 229 , 235 ,early modern medicine 14
earth 19
earthquakes 13 , 19 , 61
eclipses 19 , 61
ecstasy 156 ; ecstatic people 212 ;ekstatikos 149
Edelstein, L. 2 n. 2 , 3
education 208 n. 10 ; medical 7