General index 399
Egyptian medicine 4 , 9 n. 17
ejaculation 259 , 271 f.
elementary qualities, Diocles on 24
elements, four 12 , 19 ; of foodstuffs 83
elite physicians 19
emanatory theory of vision 211
embryo 178 ; status of 11
embryology 10 , 14 ; Diocles on 24
embryonic development 11
emotion 129 , 172 , 181 , 224 , 236
Empedocles 19 , 20 – 1 , 33 , 34 , 156 , 165 , 231 n. 81 ;
haematocentric theory 125 ; healing activity
of 13 ; medical interests of 10 , 103 ;on
sterility 17
empirical method 78 , 85 ; approach to medicine 9
n. 17 , 123 ; data 134 , 135 ; evidence 25 , 121 , 177 – 8 ,
282 , 286 ; observation 130 , 170 ; research 10
Empiricists 12 , 16 , 28 – 9 , 75 , 77 , 80 , 84 , 97 , 102 ,
105 , 279 , 282 , 291 ff., 321 ff., 325
encephalocentric theory 21 , 124 , 135
Enlightenment 2
enthousiasmos 242 n. 19 ; 251 ff.
environment 14 , 225
environmental history 1 , 7
epilepsy 17 , 19 , 45 – 73 , 109 , 123 , 127 , 131 ff., 156 ,
191 ; epileptic seizure 131 , 177 – 8
epilogismos 291
epistemology 12 ; of medicine 14 , 299 ff.
Erasistratus 7 , 28 , 104 , 110 – 11 , 118 , 326 ;onhorror
vacui 12 ; interest in ‘physics’ 11 ; on mechanical
vs. teleological explanation 12 ; reception of
Aristotelian ideas in 16 ; on the use of
experience 99
error 265 ; in pharmacology 286
ethics 26 ; in Aristotle 17 ; history of medical 4 ;
medical 7 ; role of nature in 214
ethnography of literature 30
̄ethopoion 141 , 152 , 158 , 166
Euclid 31
Eudemus 264
euphuia 145 , 165 , 227 , 232
Euripides, religious beliefs of 46
Europe, Aristotle’s views on 225
eutuchia 17
evacuations, Diocles on 110
evidence, medical 26 ;see alsoempirical method
excretions 53
exercise 113
experience 24 , 78 , 84 – 5 , 195 , 254 f., 279 ff., 282 ff.,
321 ff.; ‘practised’ 291 ; ‘qualified’ 98 , 280 ff.; vs.
reason 29
experiment 12 , 135 , 282 , 297 f.
explanation 9 n. 17 , 12 ;see alsocausal explanation
external remedies, Diocles on 110
eyes, rolling of 131
faeces 153
fainting fit 177
falsification 135
fear 156 , 236
female, contribution to generation 11 ;
reproductive anatomy 25
fertility 11 ; fertility test 270 n. 48 ;see also
infertilityandsterility
fever 10 , 11 , 28 , 145 , 181 ; Diocles on 24 , 110
final cause 204 ;see alsocause
fire, element 19 , 27 , 128 , 231
first person, use in scientific literature 40
flesh 226 – 7 ; people with hard 166 , 213 ; people
with soft 166 , 213 , 230
fluids, bodily 12 , 129 , 153
Follinger, S. ̈ 261 , 274
fomentations 113
foods 10 , 14 ; Diocles on 24
foodstuffs 282 , 288 , 294
form–matter distinction 208 , 235 , 261
fortune, good (eutuchia) 17 , good 232 , 238 ff.
Frede, M. 316
Fredrich, C. 86
freedom, intellectual 47 – 8 n. 10
frenzy, Plato on 245Galen 3 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 28 – 9 , 40 , 302 , 303 , 327 ;on
Hipp. writings 21 ; ideas about distinguished
physicians 123 ; on oral teaching 37 ; on overlap
between medicine and philosophy 13 ;
presentation of Diocles by 97 ; philosophy of
science 12 ; on reason and experience 279 ff.;
reception of Aristotelian ideas in 14 , 16 ;
relation to Alexander 28 ; teleology 16 ; views
on the history of medicine 11 ; works:On the
Method of Healing 282 ;On Mixtures 287 ff.;On
the Powers of Foodstuffs 76 ff., 285 ;Thrasybulus
118
gas 132
gender 213 , 287 , 303 ; studies 8
general, vs. particular 10
generalisation 89 , 290
generality (koinot ̄es) 303 , 325
generation 259 ff.
genius 18 , 165
genres 32 – 4
genus 12 , 316 , 319
Glaucias 104
gn ̄om ̄e 130
Gnosticism 88
gods 5 , 239 ; in Aristotle 238 , 243 n. 21 , 245 , 253 ff.;
as causes of disease 58 , 60 , 65 , 71 ; as healers
62 , 71 ; as purifiers of moral errors 65 , 71 ;as
senders of dreams 143 – 4 , 189
Gorgianic figures of speech 33 , 36