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Contents
| 7 | |
| 55 | |
G Conclusions | 125 |
MEDICINE BEFORE HIPPOCRATES | 161 |
B The Sicilian School | 185 |
HIPPOCRATES AND HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE | 201 |
FROM HIPPOCRATES TO ALEXANDRIAN | 399 |
ALEXANDRIAN MEDICINE | 473 |
PHYSICIANS | 563 |
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS | 595 |
INDEX 635 | 609 |
Common terms and phrases
A. L. Peck Alcmaeon Alexandria anatomy Ancient Greek Medicine Ancient Medicine animalium animals Anonymus Londinensis Aristotle Art of Medicine arteries Athens blood body brain C. R. S. Harris Caelius Aurelianus Cambridge University Press Celsus century BC Chapter Clarendon Press Cnidian Diogenes Laertius discussed dissection Early Alexandria edited Egyptian Empedocles Erasistratus example Fragment G. E. R. Lloyd Galen Harvard University Press heart Heinrich von Staden Hellenistic Herophilus Hippocrates Hippocratic Corpus Hippocratic medicine Hippocratic Oath Hippocratic physician Hist History of Medicine J. E. Raven Kirk and J. E. Littré Loeb Classical Library Ludwig Edelstein Medicine in Early mentioned naturalistic nature Oxford P. M. Fraser paradigm passage patient physiology Plato pneuma Praxagoras Presocratic Philosophers Ptolemaic Alexandria Pythagorean Regimen says System in Ancient Temkin Theophrastus Translation by A. L. Translation by W. H. S. treatises Vascular System veins VIII vols W. H. S. Jones W. S. Hett Women’s Diseases
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Page 115 - ... quoniam fieri nil posse videmus. pondus enim prohibet ne plagis omnia fiant externa quasi vi. sed ne mens ipsa necessum intestinum habeat cunctis in rebus agendis 290 et devicta quasi cogatur ferre patique, id facit exiguum clinamen principiorum nec regione loci certa nec tempore certo.
Page 75 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Page 98 - Conceive them as having their legs and necks fettered from childhood, so that they remain in the same spot, able to look forward only, and prevented by the fetters from turning their heads. Picture further the light from a fire burning higher up and at a distance behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners and above them a road along which a low wall has been built, as the exhibitors of puppet shows have partitions before the men themselves, above which they show the puppets.
Page 244 - I am about to discuss the disease called "sacred." It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
Page vii - And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Page 152 - His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit...
Page 347 - Now this girl had heard the sort of thing women say to each other - that when a women is going to conceive, the seed remains inside her and does not fall out. She digested this information, and kept a watch. One day she noticed that the seed had not come out again. She told her mistress, and the story came to me. When I heard it, I told her to jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her heels at each leap. After she had done this no more than seven times, there was a noise...
Page 114 - When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul.
Page 439 - think," but they never "know"; and because of their hesitation they always add a "possibly" or a "perhaps," putting everything this way and nothing positively. They are cynical; that is, they tend to put the worse construction on everything.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Medicine: Greek medicine Volume 2 of A History of Medicine, Plinio Prioreschi, ISBN 1888456000, 9781888456004 Mellen history of medicine |
| Author | Plinio Prioreschi |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Horatius Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 1888456027, 9781888456028 |
| Length | 695 pages |
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