Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Chapter XVI

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Erasistratus, again, by his favourite principle of _horror vacui_ could never explain the secretion of urine by the kidneys. While, however, he acknowledged that the kidneys do secrete urine, he makes no attempt to explain this; he ignores, but does not attempt to refute, the Hippocratic doctrine of specific _attraction_. "Servile" position taken up by Asclepiades and Erasistratus in regard to this function of urinary secretion.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION ix 3. BOOK III 221 4. INTRODUCTION 5. Chapter I 6. Chapter II 7. Chapter III 8. Chapter IV 9. Chapter V 10. Chapter VI 11. Chapter VII 12. Chapter VIII 13. Chapter IX 14. Chapter X 15. Chapter XI 16. Chapter XII 17. Chapter XIII 18. Chapter XIV 19. Chapter XV 20. Chapter XVI 21. Chapter XVII 22. Chapter I 23. Chapter II 24. Chapter III 25. Chapter IV 26. Chapter V 27. Chapter VI 28. Chapter VII 29. Chapter VIII 30. Chapter IX 31. Chapter I 32. Chapter II 33. Chapter III 34. Chapter IV 35. Chapter V 36. Chapter VI 37. Chapter VII 38. Chapter VIII 39. Chapter IX 40. Chapter X 41. Chapter XI 42. Chapter XII 43. Chapter XIII 44. Chapter XIV 45. Chapter XV 46. BOOK I 47. introduction had been given to the practical parts of our teaching. 48. Introduction, p. xxvii. 49. Introduction, p. xxix. 50. BOOK II 51. BOOK II 52. Introduction, p. xxxiv. 53. Introduction, pp. xii. and xxxi. 54. BOOK III 55. BOOK III 56. Introduction, pp. xxii.-xxiii.

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