General Index

Chiara Thumiger

doi:10.1017/9781009241311.016

General Index

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, 242

Abou Ma’shar al-Balkhî, 306

addiction, 339, 364

Ælred of Rievaulx, 288, 295, 301

Aeschylus, 226

Aetius of Amida, 51, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179–180, 182, 388

Agamben, Giorgio, 358

aggressiveness, 85, 92, 159, 191, 202–203, 209–211, 293, 314, 323, 325, 341, 365, 379

Alain of Lille, 308

Albert of Stade, 288

alcoholism, 283, 339, 364

Alexander of Aphrodisias [ps.-], 157, 161, 163, 173, 375, 388

Alexander the Great, 302, 303

Alexander of Hales, 301, 302

Alexander of Tralles, 177, 181, 182, 217, 267, 388

Al-Kashkarī, 238

Alphita, 252, 278

al-Rāzī, 238, 244–246, 388

Ambrose of Milan, 214

anachronism, 1–2, 4, 31, 122, 360–361, 381

anatomo-pathology, 186, 260, 315–316, 317–321, 322, 340, 342, 350, 359, 361

anatomy, 317–318

anger, 16, 69, 84, 85, 92, 144, 173, 178, 183, 190, 202, 215, 232, 246, 255, 256, 272, 291, 296–297, 323, 336, 337, 349, 375

animals, 98, 123, 173, 203, 219–221, 226, 258, 260–261, 277–278, 286, 292, 293–294, 298, 307, 349, 350–354, 375

boars, 294

dogs, 169, 299, 351, 354, 375

horses, 203, 293, 294, 352, 353, 354

lambs, 354

Anonymus Londinensis, 52, 53, 55, 82, 275, 358, 377, 386

Anonymus Parisinus, 4, 51, 53, 54, 55, 94, 130–136, 387

Antonio Beniveni, 389

Antonius Bonfini, 297

aortē, 17, 88

apostēma, 236, 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 262, 269, 271, 275, 276, 277, 284, 285, 286

Aquinas, Thomas, 216, 289, 305, 307

Arabic sources, 235–246, 358

archaism, 17, 41, 50, 259, 382

Aretaeus, 77, 100, 108, 129, 137, 149, 162, 165–166, 173, 267, 387

Aristophanes, 19

Aristotelianism, 355

Aristotle, 13, 17, 43–44, 51, 52, 260

Arnau de Vilanova, 273, 274–276, 388

Asclepiades, 71, 81, 260, 322, 336, 373, 387

ogkoi, 63

pores, 64

poroi, 64

Asterius Sophista, 204, 205

athymia, 60

atonia, 207, 367

Augustine, 198, 204, 205, 206, 210, 211, 213, 216, 217, 287, 357

autopsy (of phrenitic patients), 327–329

Babylonian medicine, 21, 248, 250, 371–372

Basil of Caesarea, 198, 204, 214, 228

Beniveni, Antonio, 317–318

Bernard of Clairvaux, 292

Bernard of Cluny, 296

Bernard de Gordon, 273, 276, 376, 389

bile, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 45, 47, 48, 59, 61, 62, 98, 116, 119, 127, 128, 129, 139, 150, 155, 157, 168, 169, 176, 179, 184, 230, 233, 241, 242, 244, 245, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 263, 265, 266, 272, 276, 292, 320, 341, 370, 386, 388

black, 87, 98, 100, 128, 176, 241, 252, 388, see

black burnt, 263

burnt, 266, 285, 388

ochre, 127, 179, 184, 285, 388

overcooked, 176, 179, 388

pure red, 263, 277, 388

red, 254, 256, 277, 285

red burnt, 258, 277

yellow, 119, 126, 127, 148, 153, 167, 168, 176, 179, 184, 233, 234, 241, 242, 387, 388

yellow, overcooked, 388

birsām/sirsām, 235–243

blood, 23, 28, 31, 35–36, 42, 46, 47, 54, 55, 57, 84, 116, 128, 139, 176–177, 184, 211, 212, 233, 234, 241, 242, 244, 245, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258, 263, 277, 285, 300, 307, 312, 320, 323, 324, 385–389

bilious, 320

blackened, 328

boiling, 275, 276, 277, 285, 294, 335

engorgement, 353

from the nose, 176, 272, 276, 280, 373

fumes, 77, 163, 252, 285, 320

putrefied, 285

in the brain, 341, 346

putrid, 245

body

imaging the, 20

Boerhaave, Herman, 322–327, 389

brain, 42, 54, 55, 88, 99, 100–104, 317–318, 358, 361–363, see encephalocentrism, meninges

and anthropology, 355–359

body of, 240, 241, 242, 259, 262, 276, 284, 321, 328

cerebral death, 358

faculties of, 52, 101, 108, 115, 116, 146, 150, 166, 167, 175, 178, 275, 304, 387

inflammation of, 381, 382, 383, 389

regions of, 143

ventricles, 102, 174, 175, 183, 289

breathing, 36, 115, 157, 158, 241, 243, 249, 349

Byzantine world, 177–183, 222, 224–231, 351, 388

cadaver dissection, 317, 327, 328, 329, 340, 352

Caelius Aurelianus, 8, 62, 185, 322, 372, 388

Caesarius of Arles, 203, 205, 208, 212, 221, 310

Calvin, Jean, 289, 290, 309

cardiac disease, 76, 77, 190, 282

cardiocentrism, 8, 36, 55, 96, 104, 355–359

Carelli, Giuseppe, 354

causation, 2, 30–31, 63–64, 101, 128, 137, 148, 160, 233, 245, 253, 254, 256–257, 269, 277, 316–317, 318, 320–321, 322, 334–335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 349, 364, 385–389

cavity, 22, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 48, 98, 106, 167, 227, 372

gastric, 36

thoracic, 36

Celsus, Caius Cornelius, 8, 51, 71–78, 79, 82, 93, 99, 132–133, 138, 164, 185, 200, 227, 267, 317, 321, 322, 387

change, 142, 144, 200, 258, 304, 349

of behaviour, 183

in complexion, 86

of voice, 162

character, 161, 162–163, 180, 182, 183, 196, 266, 289, 294–299, 302, 303, 310–313, 323, 325, 328, 337, 338, 356, 383

inconsistency of, 161

chest, 7, 14, 22, 30, 33–34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 61, 66, 80–81, 95–97, 98, 104, 107, 108–109, 114–115, 129, 134, 136, 156, 176–177, 227, 229, 230, 236, 240, 243, 248–249, 257, 259, 264, 265, 266, 268, 273, 275, 279, 281, 283, 314, 322, 355, 358, 372

Christian theology, 217, 290, 298, 313, 357

Christianity, 197–216

chronology, 119, 123–124, 161

Cicero, 66, 187, 189, 217

cognition, 96, 141, 251, 275, 359

damage to, 47, 99, 140, 162, 365

Concilia Africae, 223

condescension, 212, 213, 215, 300

Constantinus Africanus, 255

Copho, 255

Cornelius Jansen, 302

coughing, 115–116, 156

crocydism, 27, 50, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 111, 120, 129, 131, 163, 182, 183, 233, 235, 246, 262, 265, 272, 283, 284, 312, 326, 347, 349

Cullen, William, 339

curability, 220, 283, 334

Cyranides, 219

Cyril of Alexandria, 204

daemon(s), 191, 204, 208, 209, 214, 217–218, 266, 268, 283, 284, 297, 306, 314, 389

sibare (daemonic possession), 266–267

dangerousness, 91, 202–203, 292–293, 314

de Vries, Michaëlis Jacobus, 340

debauchery, 308, 311, 350, 364, 366

Decretum magistri Gratiani, 307, 308

delirium, 361, 363–365, 366

delirium tremens, 282, 283

delocalization, 78, 83, 93, 100, 129, 185, 325, 336, 367, 368

Demetrius of Apamea, 54

Democritus, 192

depression, 6, 364, 366

diagnosis

retrospective, 6, 25, 49, 50, 122, 124, 244, 323, 346, 363, 369, 372

diaphragm, 1, 7, 12–14, 17, 18, 20, 29, 32, 33–35, 36, 37–40, 41, 43–45, 46, 50, 52–53, 61, 66, 80, 91, 97, 98, 99, 103–107, 109, 126, 158, 176, 177, 183, 226, 233, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 242, 248, 251, 257, 258, 266, 274, 277, 278, 281, 284–285, 319, 322, 329, 336, 340, 358, 389

sensitivity of, 38, 44

Dio Chrysostom, 208, 215

Diocles, 53–54, 358, 386

Diocles of Carystus, 53, 54

disease

co-factors in, 30

co-morbidity, 47, 53, 87, 95

concept, 4, 8, 21, 120, 185

conceptual fuzziness, 17

entity, 4, 6, 8, 21, 25, 35, 49, 110, 122, 192, 225, 363

etymology, 11, 106, 235, 249, 283, 286, 322, 358, 365, 377, 382

and history, 3–7, 360–361

label, 2, 359, 367–369

life and death of, 4, 360–361

neighbouring, 47, 77, 134, 164, 165

new, 4, 5–6, 377

nomenclature, 380–384

robustness, 2, 47

doctor

Jesus as, 211–212

relationship with patient, 209–211, 212–215, 232, 297–300

reports, 342–347

violence against, 209–211, 297–299

dog

star, 169, 376

dogmatism, 79

doxography, 51, 131, 135

dreams and dreaming, 28, 29, 84, 140, 141, 145, 151, 163, 182, 183, 193, 198, 199, 216, 228, 256, 264, 265, 272, 288, 289, 291, 306, 357

drunkenness, 50, 127, 190, 194, 201, 228, 308–309, 313, 338, 364

dryness, 26, 102, 140, 141, 147, 149, 153–154, 159, 368, 370

DSM, 364, 365

du Laurens, André, 318–319, 389

Ducas, 303

eastern influences, 246–248, 370–373

emotions, 16, 41, 79, 160, 170, 188, 250, 296–297, 337, 339, 341, 356, 359, 382

encephalitis, 338, 361–363, 380–384

encephalocentrism, 8, 36, 55, 89, 96, 142, 145, 268, 355–358

encyclopaedists, medical, 174

Encyclopédie, 335, 364

Epictetus, 207, 366

epigastrion, 20

epilēpsis/ēpilepsia, 8, 42, 81, 102, 109, 167, 169, 187, 197, 219, 248, 304, 351

Epiphanius, 200, 203

Erasistratus, 54, 55, 100, 387

Erasmus of Rotterdam, 304

Esagil-kīn-apli, 371

etymology, 10

Euripides, 16, 373, 375

Evagrius Scholasticus, 201, 302

existential suffering, 62, 196, 200–202, 291, 303, 365–367

expectoration, 32, 33, 34, 111, 114, 115, 116, 326

Falstaff, 311–313, 366

fear, 5, 29, 50, 73, 75, 85, 88, 92, 122, 124, 144, 147, 159, 162, 170, 193, 194, 210, 223, 257, 263, 306, 307, 365, 371

female, patients

pregnant, 40

virgins, 42

wife of Theodorus (Hipp. Epid. 7, 25), 43

fever, 23–24, 86–87, 136–139

Firmicus Maternus, 218

‘folk’ cultures, 8, 170, 186, 217, 220, 224, 292, 305, 313, 333, 334, 365, 376

forgetfulness, 265

Fronto, Marcus Cornelius, 190

Galen, 100–173, 355

Gee, Samuel, 344–347

General Adaptation Syndrome, 365

Gentile da Foligno, 270, 271, 375, 388

Geoffroy of Auxerre, 303

Gerson, Jean, 289, 294, 297, 299, 309

Gesta Romanorum, 304

Gilbertus Anglicus, 258, 388

gonorrhea, 4

Gregory of Nyssa, 200, 202, 207, 211, 227, 290

grief, 295, 302, 303, 309, 311–312, 322, 323, 324

Guibert of Tournai, 292, 297

hagiography, 188, 302, 313

hallucination, 29, 145–147, 163–164, 190–191, 197–199

head/caput, 35, 56, 65, 70, 91, 132, 164, 229, 253, 258, 265, 269, 355

headache, 22, 35, 42, 109, 164, 172, 241, 320, 332, 342, 343, 345, 362, 363, 368

heart, 17, 20, 100, 247, 355–359, 368, 389

Hellenism, 315, 329, 340

Hellenistic medicine, 96, 249

Henry of Lancaster, 300

Heraclides, 55

Heraclitus, 44

heresy, 199, 200, 290

Herophilus, 54, 100, 157, 386

Hildegard of Bingen, 288, 307

Hippocratic medicine, 21–50, 77–78

histology, 259, 271, 273, 284, 285, 321, 337, 344, 360

holism, 70, 89, 93, 114, 135, 185, 200, 228, 251, 285, 317, 333, 334, 336, 387

Homer, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 37, 226, 357, 382

Hooper, John, 340–342

horses, 351

Howard, Robert, 342

Hugues de Miramar, 230

Humbert of Romans, 308

humours, 31, 56, 96, 98, 102, 109, 119, 123, 126, 127, 137, 144, 148, 150, 152, 159, 163, 167, 233, 234, 239, 252, 255, 260, 261, 267, 269, 270, 272, 275, 285, 320, 321, 386

hump

as sign in phrenitis, 33

Ḥunayn, 63, 169, 236, 237, 238, 242, 256, 388

Hus, Jan, 293

hydrophobia, 5

hypersensitive, 159, 166, 209

hypersensitivity, 140

hypochondrion, 14, 34, 36, 64, 98, 100, 132, 135, 139, 151, 165

Ibn al-Nafīs, 242

Ibn al-Quff, 242

Ibn-Rushd, 268

Ibn Serapion, 243

Ibn Sīnā, 238, 240, 241, 246, 261, 388

Ibn Zuhr, 268, 388

impairment (as consequence of phrenitis), 347

incapacitation, 190, 196, 307, 308, 313

infectiousness, 25, 347–350

insomnia, 26, 27, 102, 103, 108, 118, 119, 124, 131, 139, 149, 150, 153, 162, 166, 167, 194, 234, 242, 243, 245, 267, 321, 347

involuntary treatment, 188, 215, 301

Irenaeus, 205

Jesus, 210, 211–212, 213, 298, 300, 305, 314

Jewish sources, 109, 175, 224, 225, 243, 255, 262, 279, 280

Jews

as paradigmatic ‘phrenitics’, 208, 210, 212, 298, 314

Joannes Actuarius, 233, 234

Joannes Camaterus, 306

Joannes Tzetzes, 291

Joannes Zonaras, 303

John Chrysostom, 197, 199, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 209, 215, 216, 295

John of Damascus, 298, 300

John VI Kantakouzenos, 229

judgement, 67, 144, 145, 146, 161, 163, 193, 291, 292, 320, 327, 381

lack of, 142, 199–200, 205, 245, 262, 272, 288

Julian of Toledo, 296

karabitus, 235, 237, 238, 239, 244, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270, 271, 274, 284, 375

kardia, 16, 42

Lancet, The, 342

laughter, 43–44, 50, 75, 88, 205–206, 295–296

Lawrence of Brindisi, 289, 297, 301

leg, 325, 329–332

Leo the Mathematician, 229

Leo Medicus, 233

lethargy, 77, 166, 230, 240, 244, 261, 272, 273, 279, 311, 312, 347

change to, 75

polarity with phrenitis, 62, 169, 239, 255, 274, 276, 281

liver, 34–35, 38, 39–40, 41, 43, 45, 96, 100, 107, 173, 247, 249, 255, 257, 260, 321, 328, 350, 358, 382

localization, 7, 8, 12–14, 33–36, 58, 66, 76, 83, 88–89, 95, 97, 101, 126, 128, 129, 131, 135, 142, 173, 175, 176–177, 183, 227, 238, 240, 250, 276, 277, 279, 285, 323, 329, 355, 360

locus affectus, 22, 34, 46, 52, 57, 65, 66, 82, 93, 101, 128, 138, 171, 179, 227, 229, 235, 241, 254, 284, 319, 328, 358

Lucian, 195, 202, 323, 326, 373, 374

lung

animal ingredient, 254, 260, 277

lung(s), 46, 77, 98, 99, 109, 135–136, 163, 176, 194, 248, 259, 268, 277, 322, 328, 329, 349, 358, 363, 387, 389

lyric poetry, 7

Maimonides, 279–281, 389

malaria, 3, 7, 25, 193, 370

male, gendering of phrenitic behaviours, 188

Manardo, Giovanni, 316

Marius (Gaius Marius), 188, 193, 194, 303

Martial, 191

Marwan ibn Ǧanah (Rabbi Jonah), 278, 279, 286

medical dictionaries, 380–384

Medical Times, The, 343

membrane(s), 267, 269, 271, 274, 275, 285, 389

memory, 112, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 175, 203, 250, 261, 262, 265, 280, 309, 359, 365, 374

Menander, Aspis, 58–62, 195

meninges, 389

meningitis, 1, 3, 7, 244, 260, 277, 332, 344, 345, 346, 358, 361, 362, 363

meningo-encephalitis, 340, 361, 372

Menoneia, 52

metaphor, 8, 15, 18, 37, 42, 62, 188, 189, 191, 197, 198, 200, 210, 215, 223, 224, 225, 226, 287, 289, 291, 294, 296, 297, 313, 351, 363, 368, 382

Methodism, 58, 62, 63, 65, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 93, 94, 367

Methodists and Caelius Aurelianus, 78–93

Michael Psellus, 230, 233, 283, 287, 298, 301, 309

mind

theories of, 36

mind, pathology of

disease entities see disease

health vs illness, 3

mind vs body, 3

morality, 146, 350

Christian, 302

male, 188

Morgagni, Giovanbattista, 327–329, 340, 347, 389

motor, disturbance, 26, 142, 145, 148, 159, 160, 185

Nemesius, 175, 388

nerves, 96, 100, 101, 145, 147–148, 149, 161, 170, 183, 206–207, 234, 248, 257, 352, 367, 383, 389

neura (as Greek medical term), 96–97, 100, 126, 387

neurology, 96, 142, 163, 188, 356, 362

Nicophorus Gregoras, 304

nomenclature, 22, 100, 274, 316, 338, 377, 378, 380

noos, 12

Odo of Cluny, 291

Olbert of Gembloux, 296

Onulphus of Hautmont, 303

oppression, 25, 62, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 134, 150, 151, 155, 176, 218, 227, 245, 265, 269, 304, 352

Oribasius, 174, 177

Origen, 198, 206

pain, 12, 16, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 50, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 78, 84, 87, 89, 96, 98, 106, 107, 135, 138, 147, 149, 151, 159, 160, 163, 180, 181, 201, 227, 228, 230, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 249, 252, 253, 255, 260, 265, 266, 267, 269, 277, 280, 303, 322, 323, 325, 327, 328, 330, 331, 332, 336, 342, 343, 344, 347, 357, 378, 380

Paley, Robert, 342

Palladius of Alexandria, 231

Pantegni, 255, 256, 257, 269, 388

Paracelsianism, 317, 333, 335, 336

Paracelsus, 317, 333–336

Paragranum, 334

paraphrenitis, 348

paraphrosynē, 110, 117, 120, 121, 137, 142, 143, 154, 168, 170, 172, 177, 179, 182

patients

Anabilla (patient case in medieval England), 308

in Caelius Aurelianus, 84

case described by Herman Boerhaave, 324

discussed by Gerard Van Swieten, 331

discussed by Giovanbattista Morgagni, 327–329

Hippocratic, 21–30

imperial age, 129–164

modern, 342–347

profiling, 168–170, 350

Paul of Aegina, 51, 133, 174, 176, 178, 180, 183, 235, 240, 261, 284, 375, 388

Paulus of Nicaea, 233

Peckham, John, 296

perception, 51, 141, 146, 181, 199, 287, 365

acoustic, 143

flawed, 43, 67, 73, 142, 163, 234, 249, 289

lack of, 234

olfactory, 143

optical, 143

tactile, 143

peripleumoniē, 22, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 41, 48, 67, 165, 166

Peter Chrysologus, 208

Peter Damian, 292, 307, 309

Petronius, 191

phantasia (imagination), 73

Philip of Harveng, 295, 299

phlegm, 22, 28, 31, 32, 39, 46, 47, 48, 70, 119, 134, 150, 178, 230, 241, 252, 255, 256, 260, 272, 386, 389

Photius, 233

phrēn/phrenes, 7, 11–17, 19, 36–44, 50–53, 82, 103–105, 107, 108, 109, 112, 121, 141, 152, 229, 249, 250, 259, 275, 278, 368, 371, 377, 381

vitality, 67

phrenitis

and astrology, 218–219, 221, 247, 306–307, 333

chronology of, 118

ethnic variations, 217

kinds of, 87–88

in kings and leaders, 188, 193, 194, 302, 303, 304

legal standing, 189, 222–223, 282, 284, 307–308, 313, 316

as metaphor, 287

and poverty, 350

and prophecy, 183, 184, 188, 190, 217, 218, 305

as quintessential disease, 187

severity of, 86

and society, 217, 314

status quaestionis, 19–20

and supernatural occurrences, 218

phrenology, 360, 383–384

phrontis, 29, 50

physiognomy, 170, 231, 266, 383

Pindar, 15, 16, 291, 357

Pinel, Philippe, 339, 389

Plato, Timaeus, 13, 34, 44, 100, 103, 279, 377

pleurai, 67, 229, 285

pleuritis, 60, 67, 86, 135, 166, 195, 233, 238, 243, 273, 325

Pliny, 44, 77, 189, 220, 221, 322

Plutarch, 4, 6, 60, 188, 190, 192, 193, 194, 195, 203, 213, 303, 367

pneumonia, 22, 32, 45, 67, 77, 81, 86, 87, 134, 263, 371

Practica Maestri Bartholomaei, 253

Praxagoras, 55

Procopius, 302

prognosis, 30, 32, 81, 94, 110, 125, 140, 158, 280, 349

psychē, 12, 16, 44, 52, 112, 229

psychology, 7, 12, 15, 29, 44, 58, 60, 69, 72, 78, 79, 83, 85, 91, 93, 132, 159, 160, 162, 173, 186, 215, 272, 285, 323, 334, 349, 359, 367, 372

pulse, 156–157, 182, 183, 219, 233, 234, 235, 241, 243, 244, 246, 249, 253, 257, 259, 264, 275, 276, 280, 319, 324, 327, 341, 344, 347

putridity, 46, 245, 335, 349

Qānūn fīl-ṭibb, 238, 246

Qarānīṭis, 238, 240, 242

Quellenforschung, 84

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, 220

Quoduultdeus, 208, 209, 212

rabies, 124, 253, 263, 268, 285, 322, 351, 352, 375

Radboud of Utrecht, 291

Rather, bishop of Verona, 290

reception of Greek medicine, 315–316, 346, 350, 367–373

reductionism, 160

Renaissance, medicine, 315–336

respiration, 33, 36, 38, 50, 87, 105, 113, 132, 156, 157, 158, 183, 233, 264, 266, 280, 281, 319, 321, 341, 343, 352, 353

retrospective diagnosis, 7, 24, 29, 193, 244, 370, 372

ancient, 50

Rhetorius, 306

root, etymological see etymology

Rudolf of St Trond, 290

Rufus of Ephesus, 4, 157

Rupert of Deutz, 309

Saalmann, Ferdinand, 348–350

sadness, 88, 92, 169, 205, 245, 265

Saint-Amand, Jean de, 270

Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital reports, 331–332

Salernitan medicine, 251–258

satire, Roman genre, 191–192, 314, 338

satyriasis, 4

scholia, 226

seasons, 68, 86, 168, 277, 373, 376

summer, 368, 373, 374–376

winter, 22, 32, 33, 48, 49, 56, 86, 116, 136, 169, 179, 189, 194, 347, 373, 374

Sedulius Scottus, 295, 300

semiotics, v, 4, 94, 111, 120, 128, 153, 270, 323, 370

Seneca the Elder, 189

Seneca the Younger, 190, 213, 313

Sennert, Daniel, 318–321, 389

senses

hearing, 114, 139, 143, 159, 198, 349, 362

receptiveness of, 139–141

sensitivity of, 232

sight, 28, 114, 143, 234

smell, 54, 143, 165, 191, 198, 220, 221, 232, 258, 305

stimulation of, 288

taste, 220

touch, 2, 23, 30, 45, 87, 121, 133, 138, 143, 198, 256, 265, 280, 316, 328

vividness in dreams, 28, 140, 151, 183, 199

Servius, 217

setu, 250, 371

sex, 86, 170, 313, 364

sexual indulgence, 50, 148, 170, 297, 338

sexual variation, 86

Sextus Amarcius, 310

Sextus Empiricus, 190

Shakespeare, William, 311–313

sigla

in Hipp. Epid. 3, 50

signs

prodromic, 68

signs and symptoms, 4

a capite ad calcem, 81, 96, 130, 131, 164, 247, 255, 343

in Caelius Aurelianus, 84–86

Hippocratic, 30

Simon of Genoa, 253

sirsām, 235–243, 262

skin, 43, 98, 99, 171, 220, 258, 341, 344, 345, 346, 353, 362, 372

sleep, 11, 24, 26, 62, 75, 76–78, 84, 85, 87, 90, 96, 111, 114, 118–134, 149–152, 157, 158, 165, 166, 167, 170, 172, 174, 181, 182, 183, 190, 194, 199, 201, 211, 216, 219, 221, 228, 250, 256, 264, 265, 267, 269, 273, 280, 288, 296, 297, 306, 320, 321, 324, 330, 331, 342, 348

agrypnia, 111, 114, 118, 119, 120, 124, 127, 131, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 170, 182, 183, 233

disturbance, 26, 27, 28, 30, 46

kōma, 119, 121, 135, 150, 151, 152, 153, 234

as metaphor, 198–199, 211, 307, 309, 321

as therapy, 56, 74, 75, 134, 267, 268

types of disturbance, 118–120

soul

in ancient philosophy, 40

soul/psychē

hēgemonikon, 101, 108, 116, 167, 304, 387

soul/psychē

epithymoumenon, 100, 103

hēgemonikon, 100, 108, 146, 150, 166

thymoumenon, 100

spine, 39, 234, 285, 353

Stephanus of Byzantium, 232

stomach, 34, 39, 41, 65, 103, 107, 228, 240, 255, 258, 270, 271, 275, 282, 285, 335, 341, 348, 354, 358, 386

strength, pathological, 161, 188, 206–207

stress, 365–367

sun, 169, 181, 277, 324, 339, 341, 345, 354, 368

sun disease, 374–376

Sutton, Thomas, 338

sweat, 113, 132, 139, 155, 228, 349

sweating, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 114, 125, 132, 138, 139, 156, 263, 272, 337, 349, 370

Sym, John, 337

sympathy, 71, 95, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104, 109, 119, 167, 176, 183, 233, 239, 387

symptomatization, 347

Syriac Book of Medicines, 246–251

Syriac sources, 235–237, 246–251

Talmud, 282–284, 389

taxonomy, 4, 6, 18, 47, 48, 86, 87, 119, 120, 134, 136, 164, 179, 184, 285, 318, 339, 346, 360, 361, 380–384

technicality, 7, 9, 56, 59, 186, 187, 189, 192, 196, 221, 224, 225, 226, 230, 312, 313, 367

teleology, 227

terminology, 106, 282, 316, 377

Tertullian, 190

tetanus, 3

Themison, 80–81, 372, 387

Theodoret, 199, 200, 205

Theophilus Protospatharius, 233

therapy, 72, 106, 218, 247, 260, 267, 273, 323, 327, 333, 334, 344

animal ingredients, 254

animal parts, 257

bloodletting, 129

in Caelius Aurelianus, 93

cautious, 70

coercion as, 73

dietetics, 53, 58, 72, 78, 89, 93, 132, 134, 135, 162, 173, 174, 181, 185, 258, 260, 268, 273, 308, 321

in Galen, 170–173

harsh, 70

of the head, 77, 97, 342

late antique and Byzantine, 179–183

light and darkness as, 74

massage, 33, 74, 75, 90, 98, 165, 173, 181, 243, 260

oxyrrhodinum, 81, 108, 171, 177, 180, 267, 273

pharmacological, 58, 77, 78, 135, 162, 172, 173, 174, 189, 267, 268

phlebotomy, 74, 129, 134, 135, 171, 177, 241, 258, 267, 269, 273, 277, 281, 342, 343, 352

psychotherapy, 77, 78, 133, 139, 244, 321, 336, 359

purging, 22, 32, 38, 134, 171, 179, 263, 267, 321, 327, 334, 344

soothing, 69

‘tough love’ as, 215

Thessalus, 80, 81, 84, 108, 387

thymos, 12, 16, 182, 219, 232

tissue, 38, 229, 344, 360, see histology

torso, 17, 250, 328, 358

tragedy (Athenian), 12, 15, 16, 187, 287, 374

typhus, 3

Ulpian, 222

urine, 24, 25–26, 112–114

van Swieten, Gerard, 322–327, 332, 337, 340, 356

ventricles, 251

Vesalius, Andreas, 315, 317

vessels, 39, 135, 170, 177, 323, 328, 329, 335, 389

veterinary, 293–294, 350–354

Vettius Valens, 218

Viaticum, 258, 388

vitalism, 317, 335, 366

vocabulary, 8, 14, 19, 106, 146, 187, 196, 226, 229, 239, 252, 290, 378–384

voice, 153–155

as sign, 24

Western medicine, 2, 175, 261

William of Auvergne, 292, 293, 297, 301

William of Conches, 288

William of Ockham, 288

William of Tyre, 304

Willis, Thomas, 356

wine, 54, 127, 181, 200, 204, 232, 258, 282, 294, 303, 308, 324, 331

and drunkenness, 194, 198, 208, 228, 229, 308–311, 324, 337, 338–339, 364

as therapy, 32, 33, 42, 56, 71, 92, 165, 172, –181–182

as trigger of phrenitis, 42

womb, 42, 49, 240, 255, 258, 275, 276, 277, 285, 358

Wycliff, John, 301

yawning, 149, 158, 241, 263, 272

yellow, 285

Youatt, William, 351–355

Zentrenlehre, 360

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