Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Introduction, pp. xxii.-xxiii.
4535 words | Chapter 56
[403] He means the left auricle, considered as the
termination of the pulmonary "arteries"; _cf._ p. 314,
note 3 (388).
[404] The aorta, its orifice being circular, appears
bigger than the slit-like mitral orifice.
[405] p. 87.
[406] Or we may render it "corpuscle"; Galen practically
means the _cell_. _cf._ p. 153, note 2 (216).
[407] _cf._ the term "cavernous tissue."
[408] I. x.
[409] Lit. _homoeomerous_, _i.e._ "the same all
through," of similar structure throughout, the
_elements_ of living matter, _cf._ p. 20, note 3 (38),
and _cf._ also the "cell" of Erasistratus, p. 153.
[410] "Delivered," "dispersed"; _cf._ p. 13, note 5
(26).
INDEX AND GLOSSARY
(The numbers refer to the pages of the present edition;
fuller references will be found in the footnotes.)
Abortifacient drugs, 285
Abortion, 231, 285
Absorption from digestive tract (_v. Anadosis_)
Acidity of urine, 245, 287
Activity (function), 13
Adhesion (prosphysis) of nutriment to tissues, 39
Affinity, 33
Alimentary canal, 119, 309
coats of, 23, 263
Allopathic treatment, 199
Alteration (qualitative change), 7, 9, 241, 251
Anadosis (absorption from digestive tract), 63, 119
Anæmia, 173
Anasarca (dropsy), 41
Anastomoses (communications between arteries and veins), 321
Anaxagoras, "preformationist" doctrine of, 7
Ancient writers, value of, 279
Animal life, 3
Animals (_v._ also _History, Natural_)
cold-blooded, 181
long-necked, 275
Anorexia (want of appetite), 247
Aorta (main artery of body), 143, 323
Appetite, 249
Aristotle, 9, _et passim_ (_v._ also _Peripatetic School_)
Arrows, drugs for extracting heads of, 83
"Art" of Nature (_i.e._ of the living organism), 57
Arteries, structure of, 283
to-and-fro motion in, 313
attraction of air by, through skin, 317
Artery, pulmonary, 121, 323
Artificer, 133
Asclepiades, 49, _et passim_
Asepsis (absence of corruption), 201
Assimilation, 33
Asthenia (weakness), 239
Atomist School in Medicine, 45
Atrabiliary (melancholic) humour, 209
Attraction (_v._ also _Horror vacui_)
physiological, 45
magnetic, 73
Auricle, left, of heart, 315
right, of heart, 321
Authority, value of, 279
Aversion, 249
Baking, 259
Beauty, 47
Bile, yellow, 63, 123, 177, 191, 289
"vitelline," 209
black, 203 (_v._ also _Melancholic humour_)
Bile-passages, mechanical blocking of, 171
Biliousness, 193
Biology, repudiation of, by Atomist School, 45
Bladder, urinary, 51, 53, _et passim_
for bile (_v. Gall-bladder_)
Blood-production, 17, 169, 183, 191, 201
Boiling, 259
Boils, 253
Bone, structure of, 327
Bone-marrow, 327
Borborygmi (gurglings) in stomach, 237
Bread, constitution of, 11
Bubo (swollen lymphatic glands in groin), 185
Butchers (as the primitive anatomists), 51
Cadaver (corpse), experiment on, 265
Cartilage (gristle), 329
Catarrh (mucous discharge), 215
Cattle (as typifying "herd-morality"), 47
"Cell," of animal tissues, 153
nutrition of, 327
Change, qualitative (_v. Alteration_)
Channels (_v. Morphological hypothesis_)
Cheese-making, 91
Childbirth, 231, 285
Children's game, 27
Chill, 171, 203 (_v._ also _Cold_)
Cholagogues (drugs that draw off bile), 65
Cholera, 299
Chorion (membrane enclosing unborn child), 229
Chrysippus, 9
Chyle (emulsified contents of stomach), (_v. Emulsification_)
Cirrhosis (induration) of liver, 171
Coats (tunics), 23
Cold, action of, on skin, 301
Cold-in-the-head, 215 (_v._ also _Chill_)
Colon (large intestine), 313
Colour, 5
Conception, of semen, 233
Congius (measure), 111
Contractions (_v. Peristalsis_)
Cooking, 191
Corn, attractive power of, 87
Coryza (mucous discharge: now a "cold"), 215
Crisis, 75
Cyathus (measure), 65
Decay, 7
Deductive reasoning, 227
Deglutition (swallowing), 95, 261, 265, 273
Democritus, 153
Deposits (in tissues), 297
Desire (appetite), 249, 269
Destruction (act of perishing), 7
Diaphragm (midriff), 255
Diarrhoea, 247, 299
Diet, 35, 179, 255
Digestion, cause of, 243
impairment of, 185, 217, 237
Digestive tract, action on food, 251, _et seq._
structure (_v. Alimentary Canal_)
Diocles, 51
Disease, definition of, 197
Diseases, the four primary, 185
Disjunctive argument, 167
Distribution (diadosis) of nutriment to tissues, 163
Dropsy, 41, 67, 171
Drugs, 65, 285, 293 (_v._ also _Poisons_)
Dyscrasia (abnormal blending of the four qualities), 189
Dysentery, 205
Dyspepsia (_v. Indigestion_)
Education, 279
Effect (product, work done), 13
Emaciation, 161
Emanations, 77
Embryo, 229
Emesis (_v. Vomiting_)
Empiricist physicians, 69, 193
Emulsification, 239
Epicurus, 71
Epigastric muscles, 237
Epispastic (attractive), 117
Erasistratus, 95
Erasistrateans, 105
Etna, 259
Eucrasia (proper blending of the four qualities), 189
Evaporation, 51, 87, 251
Experience (_v. Empiricist physicians_)
Expulsive faculty, 231
Faculty (potentiality), 13
Fæces (ordure from bowel), 255
Fermentation, 209
Fever as a cause of indigestion, 185
Fibres, 329
of blood, 215
circular and longitudinal, 263
oblique, 281
Filtration, 91
Fish, voraciousness of, 269
Flavour, 5
Fluxions, 297
Foetus (unborn child), 233
death of, 287
Forced-feeding, 247
Forces, material, 127, 301
Function (activity), cause of, 197
Gall-bladder, 147, 245
absence of nerves in, 289
Gardens, irrigation of, 325
Genesis (development of embryo), 19
Germander (drug), 67
Gestation (carrying of embryo by mother), 229
Give-and-take between organs, 295
Gravity (explaining secretion of urine), 107
Greediness, 271
Growth, 27, 137
Gullet, 263
use of, by stomach, 271
function of its two coats, 273
Gurgling in stomach, 237
Habit of body, 69
Hæmorrhage, intestinal, 297
Hæmorrhoids (_v. Piles_)
Heartburn, 287
Heat, innate, 41, 141, 185
Hepatic veins (entering vena cava from liver), 147
Herophilus, 233
Hippocrates, 9, _et passim_
Histogenesis (tissue-production), 21
History, natural, 269
Homoeomeries (similar parts), 169
Homoeopathy, p. 199, Note 1 (276)
Honey, 179, 191
Horror vacui ("Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum"), 99, 155
Humours, the four, origin of, 167, 183, 209
Hydragogues (drugs that draw water out of the system), 65
Ileus volvulus (obstruction of bowels), 299, 303
Illusions, sensory, 7
Indigestion, 185, 217, 237
Inductive reasoning, 227
Inflammation, 89, 233
Interaction of any two bodies, 251
Intestine, small, 255
Intestines, structure of, 283
movements of, 243
Ionia, 29
Iron, 71
Irrigation of gardens and tissues, 325
Jaundice, 179, 207
Jejunum (part of small intestine), 299
Kidneys, 49, 89
Labour (_v. Childbirth_)
Larynx (voice-box), involved in swallowing, 265
Leprosy, 41
Leucippus, 153
Lichen (a skin-disease), 253
Liver, proper tissue of, 311
transverse fissure of, 147
induration of, 171
give-and-take between it and stomach, 291
Lodestone, 71
Love, 47
Lumen (internal cavity of a vessel), 119
Lycus, 109
Magnetism, 71
Marrow of bones, 327
Mastication, 253
Material forces, 127
Medicine, taking of, 269 (_v._ also _Drugs_)
Melancholic (_v. Atrabiliary_)
Membranes, foetal, 231, 285 (_v._ also _Chorion_)
Menander, 105
Menodotus, 81
Menstrual blood, 131, 171
Metabolism, diseases of, 41
Midwife, 235
Miscarriage, (_v. Abortion_)
Molecules (of Asclepiades), 63
Morphological hypothesis of bile-secretion, 125, 147
Motion, active and passive, 57
Mouth, lining of, 261
digestion in, 253
Mucus, 203, 215
Muscles, voluntary, 263
"Nature," 2;
its "Art," 57
Nature-lore (_v. Physiology_)
Nausea, 287
"Nerve," 151, 273
Nutriment, 41
Nutrition, 31, 149
Obstetric chair, 235
Obstruction of bowels, 299, 303
Oesophagus (_v. Gullet_)
Omentum (an apron-like fold of fat, overlying the intestine), 143,
255, 313
Organism, unity of, 61
Organs, nutrition of, 307
Os uteri (mouth of womb), 229
Ovum, human, 135
Oxidation, 211
Oxygen (_v. Pneuma_)
Pain, 287
Parturition, 231
Pathology, relation to Physiology, 189, 287
Peasants, 87
Perch (_v. Fish_)
Peripatetic (Aristotelian) School, 139
Peristalsis (contraction and dilatation), 97, 243, 263
Peritoneum, 53
Phidias, 129
Philistion, 173
Philotimus, 183
Phlegm, 67, 201, 215
Phlegmatic temperament, 193
"Physiology," 139
Piles, 171
Plant-life, 3
Plato, 173, 203, 215
Plethora (congestion), 119
Pneuma (as a vital principle), 153;
(as oxygen), 187
Poisons, action of, 251
Porch, the (Stoic School), 145
"Pores" (_v. Channels_)
Portal vein, 147
Potter's earth, 213
Practitioner, 197
Praxagoras, 51
Praxiteles, 129
"Preformationist" doctrine of Anaxagoras, p. 7, Note 5 (14)
Presentation (prosthesis) of nutriment to tissues, 39
Prevention and Cure, 169
Principles, the four fundamental (_v. Qualities_)
Prodicus, 201
Prolapse of uterus, 235
Propulsive faculty, 231
Prosphysis (_v. Adhesion_)
Prosthesis (_v. Presentation_)
Psyche, 3, 153
Psychology, repudiation of, by Atomist School, 45
Pulmonary artery, 121
Pylorus (outlet of stomach), 239
regurgitation through, 289
Pyrrhonists (typical sceptics), 197
Qualities, the four fundamental, 9, 183, 259
derivative, 21
Relativity, 17
Renal veins, 107
Respiration, 175, 305
Retentive faculty, 225
Rhetoric, 97
Safflower (drug), 67
Saliva, action of, 253
Scammony (drug), 67
Schools, two contrasted, in Medicine, 45
Scientist, 197
Scorpions, 253
Sculpture, 129
Sectarianism, 55
Sects, medical (_v. Schools_)
Self-control, 47
Self-education, 279
Semen, 131, 233
Sensation, 47
Septum, perforated, between ventricles of heart, 321
Serum (watery part of blood or milk), 91, 213
Shaping (development of organs), 19
Sieves, 91
Skin-diseases, 253 (_v._ also _Leprosy_ and _Lichens_)
Slaves, 103
Sociability, 47
Sophistry, 219, 279
Sophists, 7
Soul, 45
Specific selection of nutriment by tissues (_v. Attraction,
physiological_)
Spermatic ducts, 57
Spirit (_v. Pneuma_)
Spleen, function and diseases of, 205
"uselessness" of, 143
as an emunctory of the liver, 277
Statues, 129
Sting-ray (fish), bite of, 85
Stoics, 15, 145
Stomach, function of, 197, 237, 251, 255
coats of, 261
independent habits of, 271
give-and-take between it and liver, 291
Stone in bladder, 51
Strength, relative, of different organs, 293
Substance, 9
Superfluities (waste-substances), 35, 291
Swallowing (_v. Deglutition_)
Symptoms, 13
Synapse, 147
Teeth, 253
Temperament (crasis, mixture of elementary principles), 15, 139, 193
Temperance, 47
Theophrastus, 139
Thorns, drugs for extracting, 83
Tissues, development of, 21
their action in producing humours, 179, 195
Trachea (windpipe), 305
Transference (passive motion), 7
Transpiration, 153
Treatment, principles of, 199
Tricuspid orifice of heart, 321
Tubes, rigid, 119, 317, 325
Unity of organism, 61
Ureters, 23, 51
Urine, 51
"Useless" organs (Erasistratus), 143
Uterus (womb), 227
Vacuum, tendency to refill (_v. Horror vacui_)
Valves of heart, 121, 315
Vaporisation (_v. Evaporation_)
Vegetable diet, 35, 179
Vegetative life, 3
Veins, structure of, 283
"arterial" (_v. Pulmonary artery_)
coronary, 323
hepatic, 147
mesenteric, 293, 305
portal, 147
renal, 107, 143
vena cava (chief vein of body), 91
collapse of, 119
Ventricles of heart, communication between, 321
Vipers, 85
Vitalist School in Medicine, 45
Vivisection, 59, 241, 273
Voluntary motion, 3
Volvulus (intestinal obstruction), 299, 303
Vomiting, 241, 247, 267
fæcal, 299
Waste-products (_v. Superfluities_)
Whey (_v. Serum_)
Wine, 209, 329
Womb (_v. Uterus_)
Wounds, 185
Wrestling, 125
Zeno, of Citium, 9
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