from A B (some practitioners do show a tendency to atom-
ism). They taught that a diseased body exhibited one or the other of two “states
contrary to nature,” morbidities determined from direct observation, and termed
“communities”: one was “tightness” or “constriction,” and the other was “looseness” or
“flowing” (older translation, “flux”), with a third intermediate state occasionally
allowed, the “mixed state” (sc. of the “loose” and the “tight”). These states were said
to directly indicate the appropriate therapies. Many Methodists indulged in anatomy
and dissection of animals, surgery, and precision in pharmacology (e.g. S
E, and the lengthy catalogue of physicians retailed by C A),
so that any practical limitations by Methodist doctrines were, in practice, quite flaccid.
Edelstein (1935/1967); Frede (1982); Pigeaud (1991); Tecusan (2004) 7–21; BNP 8
(2006) 801–802, A. Touwaide.
Entries on Methodists: A (M.), A C, A-
, C A, D (M.), E, I (
A), M, M, M, M A, O-
, P (M.), P (M.), R, S E,
T, T T.
See also: A, A VIII, A (P.), A, C
., C, G, -G I, H (
T?), I S, L A, L, M
E, M C, P , P. T. 14, P
H, P.
misu copper ore from Cyprus, probably the copper-sulfide ore chalcopyrite, found at the
highest levels, above khalkitis: D, MM 5.100; G, Simples 9.3.21
(12.226–229 K.).
See also: A, A (P.), A, A, B, E-
, E (P.), H E, H, K
K (M.), L, P, P (P.), P,
S, S, S (P.), T V, T
(P.).
neuron (pl. neura) means both nerve and tendon, and from the latter also bow-string:
A, HA 3.5 (515a27–515b25); G, PHP 1.9.1–2 (CMG 5.4.1.2, v.1, pp. 94–
95): “There are three structures similar to each other in bodily form but quite different
in action and use. One is called ‘nerve’ (neuron), another ‘ligament’ (sundesmos), and the
third ‘tendon’ (tenon). A nerve in every case grows from the brain or spinal cord and
conveys sensation or motion or both to the parts to which it is attached. A ligament
is without sensation; its use is expressed by its name. Finally a tendon is the nerve-like
termination of a muscle, the product of ligament and nerve... (trans. De Lacy), and
“All three classes are white, bloodless and solid, and all are separable into straight
fibres except the very hard ligaments.. .” (1.9.8, ibid. pp. 96–97); Solmsen 1961; von
Staden 1989: 155–161, 247–259.
See also: -D (M.), H, P T,
S.
neusis the construction of a line segment such that its endpoints lie on given straight or
curved lines, and such that the line segment (produced if necessary) passes through a
given point; cf. A P. BNP 8 (2006) 690, M. Folkerts.
See also: H (M.), H K, N.
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