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Galen and Black Bile : Doxographical Strategies and Hippocratic Perspectives.
In Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen's writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2018.
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| Colección: | Studies in Ancient Medicine Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Galen and the History of Black Bile; 1. The Origins of Black Bile and Humoral Theory; 2. Galen's Doxographical Explanation for the History of Black Bile; 3. Summary; Chapter 2. Key Influences on Galen's Writing on Black Bile; 1. The Importance of Philosophy in Galen's Interpretation of the Hippocratic Corpus; 2. The Influence of Galen's Teachers on His Views Concerning Medical Theory; 3. Galen's Opinion on the Authenticity of the Hippocratic Writings
- 4. Galen's Polemic against Those He Considers to be Opposed to Humoral Theory5. Summary; Chapter 3. Galen's Qualitative and Structural Characterisation of Black Bile; 1. The Essential Properties of Black Bile; 2. Physical Descriptions of Black Bile; 3. Summary; Chapter 4. Galen's Distinction of Different Types of Black Bile; 1. The Different Types of Black Bile in Galen's Writing; 2. A Question of Consistency in Galen's Qualitative Characterisation of Black Bile; 3. Summary; Chapter 5. Galen's Explanation of Harmful Black Bile
- 1. The Properties of Altered Black Bile and How This Makes It a Potentially Harmful Substance in the Body2. Summary; Chapter 6. The Cleansing of Harmful Black Bile from the Body; 1. The Importance of the Liver for the Origin of Black Bile in the Body; 2. The Relationship between the Structure of the Spleen and Its Function; 3. Galen's Attack on Asclepiades and Erasistratus on the Function of the Spleen to Cleanse the Body of Black Bile; 4. Diseases of the Spleen in Relation to the Harmful Nature of Black Bile; 5. Summary; Chapter 7. The Diseases Caused by Black Bile
- 1. Melancholy, the Black Bile Disease2. Quartan Fever, the Black Bile Fever; 3. Cases Where the Presence of Black Bile Indicates a Terminal Disease; 4. Summary; Chapter 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Electronic Sources; Editions, Collections and Translations of Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index; Index of Sources