D, MM 3.38, 41; G, Simpl. 6.5.20 (11.877 K.); Usher 1974: 576;
André 1985: 122.
See also: E C, Z L.
hiera a drastic cathartic, emetic, or purgative, combining harsh simples with ingredients
characterized by mild, sweetish, or aromatic properties: I in O, Coll.
8.47.8 (CMG 6.1.1, p. 306) and A A 3.114–118 (CMG 8.1, pp. 303–306).
See also: A P, I (P.), L.
homoiomerous (parts) those parts of a body composed of a macroscopically
homogenous substance, thus blood, bone, tendon, etc. See A, De Caelo 3.4
(302b10–303a3), Meteor. 4.10 (388a10–389a24), 4.12 (389b24–390b21), GC 1.1
(314a16–314b1), PA 2.1–2 (646a8–648a36), 2.4–9 (650b13–655b27); G, Elementis
1.2 (1.425–426 K.); HWPhil 3 (1974) 1179–1180, A. Lumpe.
See also: A, A A, M (M.).
hudrophobia (Lat.: rabies) although prehistoric, and despite references in H,
Iliad 8.299, X, Anabasis 5.7.26, and A, HA 7(8).22 (604a5–13), the
last denying human transmission, rabies does not enter Greek medical literature until
A, who first names it (C A, Acute 3.98 [CML 6.1.1, p. 350]),
and D A (ibid. 3.106 [p. 354]), who describes it as chronic. Most
securely-datable works on rabies are 1st c. BCE or later: A S (ibid.
3.118 [p. 362]), A (ibid. 3.104, 113 [pp. 354, 358]), G H
(ibid. 3.113–114 [p. 360]), K (ibid. 3.118–119 [p. 362]), etc.; cf. A-
(M.). Rabies usually gives symptoms within a few days (fever, headache,
malaise), and the “furious” form (encephalitis) occurs in about 80% of cases, the
“dumb” form (paralysis) in roughly 20%. True rabies manifests an increasing restless-
ness, confusion, agitation, weird behaviors, reported hallucinations, inability to sleep,
excessive salivation, and – the classic symptom – painful spasms of the laryngeal and
pharyngeal muscles, thus any attempt to drink a liquid becomes hudrophobia. Death
occurs usually in three to ten days after symptoms begin. But most individuals bitten by
dogs or other animals would not contract rabies.
See also: A S, A, A C, A
C, B, -D (M.), E (M.), H,
K (M.), K, L, L M, M, M
(P.), M, N, N, N (P.), P,
P, P (M. II), R E, S, T
P, Z L.
humor (Grk. khumos; Lat. umor) one of a small number of “elemental” fluids
thought to constitute living beings; there were canonically four of these (blood, bile,
phlegm, and black bile), but some systems propounded fewer or more. See H-
C (A P, O S D, and
N); P; D K; P; G; HWPhil 3
(1974) 1232–1234, W. Preisendanz; OCD3 733, J.T. Vallance; BNP 6 (2005) 571–572, V.
Nutton.
See also: A T, A, A (H.), A-
, C, D, D P, E I,
E S, -G D M, -
G I, H, H, H K,
H C (A W P, A M, A
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