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501 2| What I say is that we must cool the over-heated stomach
502 3| round the whole organ - cooperate in the work; they squeeze
503 2| motionless, lurking in holes like corpses. Further, the question of
504 1| activities must necessarily correspond eachto one of the special
505 3| see that they all move in correspondence with their fibres. This
506 3| animal which is not also correspondingly subdued by the qualities
507 1| parts a special faculty correspondingto the function or activity
508 2| becomes sharp like vinegar and corrodes the animal's body - as also
509 2| some people have called it corrosive or acetose, because it also
510 1| far from being put out of countenanceby any of the above-mentioned
511 2| periods of life, in warm countries, at warm seasons of the
512 1| are bringingcorn from the country into the city in wagons,
513 1| In their view, obviously, courage, wisdom, temperance, and
514 3| narrowness of the outlet out of court. For, supposing a rapid
515 1| she also provides for the creatures after birth, employinghere
516 3| these fellows and have given credence to them; whilst others who
517 1| mentioned, and who saw no other credible cause on thebasis of his
518 2| care not unwittingly to credit the semen with reason and
519 3| say that their stomach "creeps out" of them; in others,
520 1| thereis no such thing as a crisis, or critical day, and that
521 1| such thing as a crisis, or critical day, and that Nature doesabsolutely
522 1| Hippocrates was wrongin criticizing the weakness of the neck
523 3| already been said, and set a crown to the whole subject by
524 1| cannot mix with the genuine crows owing to its colour,nor
525 1| this abundance of thin, crude liquid, the pabulum runs
526 1| Once again, then (the third cup to the Saviour!), let us
527 2| discovered a single one of the current ideas which is common to
528 3| its contractions) do not curtail its length, but contract
529 3| length must necessarily be curtailed. This curtailment of length,
530 2| circumstances, to fast contrary to custom, their mouths become bitter
531 1| to adhere to the facts, cuts an awkward figure by aspiringto
532 3| flour and water, there after cutting them open after three or
533 1| will not evenevacuate four cyathi of phlegm? Similarly also
534 1| hot sun, you will find the dailyloss to be very little indeed.
535 2| itself impedes in any way or damages the activity of the stomach.
536 1| there would obviouslybe danger of the opinion gaining ground
537 2| whilst in this he neither dared to contradict his predecessors
538 2| cicatrices of ulcers are dark. For, generally speaking,
539 1| they should betray their darlingprejudices. ~ ~14. Let us pass on,
540 1| Asclepiadeans" are like the Davi and Getae - the slaves introducedby
541 2| yellow bile is by no means deadly, and most people recover
542 2| colour of the blood has been dealt with not only by Aristotle
543 1| like), and that it has not dealtwith the faculties resident in
544 1| them we have growth and decay, as when a small thing becomesbigger,
545 2| plausible to say, he thinks to deceive us by the excuse that the
546 2| Erasistrateans themselves to decide; they must either advance
547 2| harm. For that which is decidedly thick and earthy in nature,
548 2| statuaries used merely to decorate their material on the outside,
549 2| substance; for the mouth is dedicated to the psychic pneuma. It
550 1| view of Hippocrates, he deemedit better to say nothing at
551 3| muscles, which also help us in defaecation and micturition. ~ 4. Thus
552 2| Nature, they suppose, is not defective in this single combination;
553 3| correct, they yet omitted to defend their arguments with logical
554 1| we in our turn would have defended ourselves in the followingterms: ~ ~"
555 2| What ensures against a deficiency? What is this third overseer
556 3| fibres, even though they are deficient in thickness; similarly
557 3| the same veins? You must define what you mean by this expression "
558 1| those who have made any definitepronouncement regarding Nature. I speak,
559 1| stated, isnutrition, and the definition corresponding to the name
560 2| there could be sophists so degraded as to contemn the truth
561 3| it various intermediate degrees of fulness, just as is the
562 2| the stomach) he did not deign to dispute with any of the
563 2| was neglecting, without deigning to argue whether or not
564 1| show him without further delaythe proper way to the discovery
565 3| between nourishing food and a deleterious drug; the latter masters
566 2| carried into the lung. Thus he delights to choose always the most
567 1| explanationwhich does not demand the principle of attraction. ~ ~
568 3| other according as utility demands, it seems not unreasonable
569 2| Epicurus, Leucippus, and Democritus. For I see that the Erasistrateans
570 1| some time toelapse, one now demonstrates that the ureter which was
571 1| present our task is not to demonstratethis, but to point out that no
572 3| one which is capable of demonstrating the retentive faculty most
573 1| neithermentioned it nor denied it, nor did he make any
574 1| article beneath his armand denies on oath that he has ever
575 1| compelled repeatedly to deny obvious facts. For instance,
576 3| in pregnancy it does not depart from its own nature, whilst
577 1| concluded by jumping up and departing - leaving me as though I
578 2| but a trifling and casual department of medicine which he was
579 1| see clearly their logical dependence on his first principles,
580 1| Almost all the othersects depending on similar principles are
581 3| so also they sometimes deposit their excess substances
582 3| it is also when they are depositing; this is the cause of the
583 3| parts. The strongest part deposits its surplus matter in all
584 1| withoutincurring the greatest derision to say that this superfluity [
585 1| naturally derive therefrom.These derivative qualities, you are acquainted
586 3| will also be some benefit derived; for no existing thing attracts
587 3| arteries possess a power which derives from the heart, and by virtue
588 3| actual end for which we desired such an activity; it is
589 3| the weaker was excessively desirous of it, there would be nothing
590 3| its completion is entirely despaired of, then the uterus no longer
591 1| and veins - the name of destinednutriment. ~ ~12. It is quite clear,
592 1| because they are able and destinedto nourish it if they be properly
593 2| should be either completely destroyed, or, at least hampered,
594 1| alterative, and, in more detail, warming, chilling, drying,
595 3| We may expect, then, to detect the retentive faculty in
596 2| occurs, the digestion at once deteriorates, and we are also right in
597 3| slightest mechanical movements determine this expulsive faculty,
598 3| outside the stomach; the determining factor is digestion which
599 1| and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do
600 3| naturally lax. ~ A wonderful device of Nature's also is this -
601 2| explaining it by different devices. For that which was previously
602 1| better ones, thereafter devotinga long time to judging and
603 3| nutriment alongside it, and devours all the useful fluid in
604 2| soon as it was drawn like dew into every part of the semen,
605 2| How, then, is he going to diagnose or cure diseases if he is
606 3| above, and along with it the diaphragm (suspended and in a state
607 1| plausibility by the factthat people die of retention of urine, and
608 1| nobody would have ever diedof retention of urine, since
609 3| perfect accuracy, but if it dies, the os at once opens up
610 2| dulness of those who think differently, and who do not even recognise
611 3| that digestion in animals differs from boiling carried on
612 1| it would not have been difficultto allow that this constructive
613 1| if the wine be thin and diffusible;these people rapidly pass
614 1| themselvesinto one another to certain diffusions and condensations. This
615 1| which we failed to remove by digitaltraction could be drawn out by these
616 1| the younger men as have dignified themselves withthe names
617 1| done with it. Forif one diligently familiarizes oneself with
618 2| while the latter forms are diluted with various kinds of serum.
619 1| we stretch it inthe three dimensions. Thus Nature alone has the
620 3| without in any way being diminished in length, this is because
621 1| to bodies whose growth is directed by Nature; for thosewhich
622 1| undergo this distension in one directionbut grow less in the others;
623 1| to be distended in all directionsbelongs only to bodies whose growth
624 2| that the bile could come directly from without, mingled with
625 2| not know the cause of its disability? What I say is that we must
626 2| in women, the complete disappearance of the monthly discharge,
627 2| to say that this property disappears in cases of fever, is simply
628 3| found full, and that it discharges it soon after, this desire
629 1| substances, attracts others, and dischargesothers. ~ ~Now, speaking generally,
630 1| what is appropriate and dischargeswhat is foreign. ~ ~But in this
631 2| Erasistratus. And, indeed, the disciples of the latter produce his
632 1| in answerto Epicurus, his discordance with his principles. Almost
633 1| a single drug were to be discoveredwhich attracted such and such
634 1| times, so also the men I am discussing have taken their timeover
635 3| surprising that the spleen should disgorge its surplus matters into
636 2| becomes involved through his disinclination to make any use of the attractive
637 3| clearly in those who are disinclined for food; when obliged to
638 3| animal's mouth, and have been disintegrated and dissolved, and have
639 1| likely to become dissipatedby disintegrating into these emanations. Further,
640 3| those especially who have a dislike to some particular kind
641 3| paradoxical that the air is dismissed through the very channel
642 2| female flux ends in this disorder. I leave out of account
643 3| quantity of its contents, or disordered from the co-existence of
644 3| natural effects and their disorders and maladies plainly take
645 1| the stomach again. And the dispersalof nutriment [anadosis] need
646 1| expelled, then alldrugs which disperse inflammations ought ipso
647 1| contact with it, it still disperses into the air, particularlyif
648 2| would everywhere cease to display its own particular character;
649 3| forced to eat, the stomach is displeased and rejects the food. And
650 1| which have todo with the disposal of the nutriment, as also
651 2| diseases. But, indeed, if disproportion of heat belongs to the primary
652 1| this had been entirely disprovedin the case of blood in the
653 1| same). And clearly this disprovesthe view of those who consider
654 2| get rid of countless other disputed questions. ~ 5. At the actual
655 1| is a thoroughly hardened disputer and as skilful a master
656 1| however, heis not to be disregarded; he may, perhaps, be stating
657 2| ventured to say, herein clearly disregarding the evidence of his senses,
658 1| anything else. Now, if hewas dissatisfied with what Epicurus said,
659 3| occasion that animals were dissected, an equal quantity of bile
660 3| which are more obscure, dissecting animals which are near to
661 1| personal observation of dissections. ~ ~Now Nature constructs
662 1| are unable to refuse or dissent from anything.In their view,
663 1| organs consistingof two dissimilar coats, of which each is
664 1| stone is likely to become dissipatedby disintegrating into these
665 1| one to spend one'stime in dissipating the fallacious arguments
666 2| blunder made by those who dissociate themselves from the principle
667 3| have been disintegrated and dissolved, and have had the qualities
668 1| useful blood into bile, and dissolvesthe body; in fact it does all
669 3| the conveyance of food, by distending this coat and hindering
670 3| trouble either because it distends them through its quantity
671 1| distended by us undergo this distension in one directionbut grow
672 3| that there is either some distention, irritation, or burden inciting
673 1| other so-called tangible distinctions, and after them thosewhich
674 1| and sight. Now, tangible distinctionsare hardness and softness, viscosity,
675 2| but not to consider such distinguished teaching worthy either of
676 1| peoplecall anasarca clearly distinguishes presentation from adhesion.
677 3| articles is accomplished with distress and difficulty. ~ From what
678 2| its mouth, it could not distribute it through its whole substance;
679 1| power of the lodestone is distributedin all directions; it merely
680 2| arteries not delivery but distribution, as some people have thought
681 1| is a common game in the district of Ionia, and among not
682 1| far astray inbidding us distrust our senses where obvious
683 3| and if it is this which disturbs you, consider inspiration
684 2| morbid or in what way they diverged from the normal, how should
685 1| and the serous fluid be diverted to those going to the kidneys?
686 3| everything else, and, as the most divine Hippocrates has said, there
687 1| the vena cava. Now this doctrinealso stands already condemned.
688 1| critical day, and that Nature doesabsolutely nothing for the preservation
689 3| faeces are most pleasing to dogs, so the residual matters
690 1| Now, clearly, in these doings of thechildren, the more
691 2| so the semen will easily dominate and quickly assimilate it -
692 1| number, and are the most dominatingof all. But as has already
693 1| removing phlegm one would have doneno good. ~ ~Nor is Hippocrates
694 1| way imagined by people who donot allow Nature a faculty of
695 2| have "escaped by the back door," as the saying is, to Asclepiades,
696 1| dropsy does not come about as dosome of the conditions of atrophy
697 3| of the stomach fulfil a double service or purpose? Thus,
698 3| therefore have no further doubts as to whether it attracts
699 3| length, this is because downward traction of the gullet is
700 3| forced to take a medicinal draught or who take food as medicine,
701 1| and Hippophaes, do not drawphlegm from the body, but actually
702 1| these cases a drug which drawsoff phlegm they will not be
703 2| Peripatetics - even in a dream. Nor, similarly, should
704 1| This school also despises dreams,birds, omens, and the whole
705 2| the same time warmer and drier than normally, the first
706 2| whilst all other water - the drinkable kind - readily spoils and
707 1| if the kidneys produce in drinkers three and sometimes four
708 1| that the whole of whatone drinks goes to the kidneys. ~ ~
709 3| excess - that is to say, drives it gets downwards - itself
710 1| body into water, and that dropsicalpatients derive benefit from these
711 2| regard to the subject of dropsies logically follow this carelessness.
712 1| them the real spermatic ductsentering the neck of the bladder
713 2| rather as indications of the dulness of those who think differently,
714 3| proportion to the longer duration of its activity as compared
715 1| ten-thousandth part as large as the dustparticles which are borne in the atmosphere,
716 1| others except Hippocrates. I dwell purposely on this topic,
717 2| knowing the causes of the dyscrasiae one may bring them back
718 2| Yet Hippocrates says, "Dysentery is a fatal condition if
719 1| suffer either from frequent dysuria or from retention of urinecall
720 1| that this superfluity [i.e.the urine] is generated
721 1| opposition to phenomena and to eachother; and, again, those of Epicurus
722 1| must necessarily correspond eachto one of the special parts,
723 3| although still undigested, earlier than proper; or again, when
724 1| Hippocrates, who lived much earlierthan Aristotle. In fact, all
725 2| naturally to the thick and earth-like part of the food, and which
726 1| being detected, they fill earthen jars with water and stand
727 2| which is decidedly thick and earthy in nature, and has entirely
728 3| And for this reason it is easier to swallow than to vomit,
729 1| redness? Thus it is quite easy for blood to becomeflesh;
730 3| particle of what they have eaten, not after three or four
731 3| Now imagine the whole economy of nutrition divided into
732 3| And, being prevented from effecting an expulsion downwards when
733 3| surplusage as quickly and effectively as possible, and this it
734 1| we must begin with those effectsof Nature, together with their
735 3| and bids her make every effort to expel the child. Now,
736 2| thick, like the yolk of eggs; for this latter is already
737 3| and the food is quickly ejected through it, even if there
738 1| of the same number as the elementaryparts; and further, the activities
739 1| employs in his "Physics" elementssimilar to those of Asclepiades,
740 3| also quite obvious that it eliminates this daily into the stomach.
741 3| or well-disposed and of eliminating what is troublesome or irritating,
742 3| each of these organs to elimination, there is no difficulty
743 1| foolish also. I have shown elsewherethat these opinions were shared
744 2| terms which are equally elucidatory, at least in relation to
745 1| with the corpuscles which emanate from the stone;therefore,
746 2| aforesaid doctrines, which emanated first from Hippocrates,
747 1| disintegrating into these emanations. Further, even if there
748 1| have seen a thorn which was embeddedin a young man's foot fail
749 2| touched, elaborated, and embellished. Phidias, on the other hand,
750 3| and propulsion, whereas emesis occurs from the outer coat
751 1| and all otherphysicians of eminence, but practically every butcher
752 3| regards the animals which emit venom, some it kills at
753 2| many others, including the Empiric physicians. And the jaundice
754 2| you not call yourselves Empiricists from the beginning? Why
755 1| of the animal's genesis, employingat this task a faculty which
756 1| the creatures after birth, employinghere other faculties again, namely,
757 1| through it by way of its emptychannels? that these then collide
758 3| descent were dependent upon emulsification, then soups, milk, and barley-emulsion
759 3| the food when chylified [emulsified]. ~ Now I have personally,
760 1| period, he willhave blood enclosed in his veins all the same).
761 3| their stomach turned up, and endeavouring to relieve itself of its
762 2| nothing new himself, that he ended by saying nothing at all.
763 2| forward to the light of day, endowed with certain faculties necessary
764 2| animal which could live or endure for the shortest time if,
765 3| this as to be incapable of enduring the pain; or it may be the
766 1| sophists do not allow one to engage in enquiries that are of
767 1| Nutriment is what is engagedin nourishing, as also is quasi-nutriment,
768 1| peculiar to it, which has engendered itfrom the menstrual blood
769 1| the vena cava, and will enjoin on another quantity comingfrom
770 1| be muchmore, and thus an enormous barrel will be needed to
771 1| fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merelydevoid
772 3| nutriment for itself is ensured by virtue of another faculty
773 2| prevents more from coming? What ensures against a deficiency? What
774 3| of some other faculty for ensuring a prolonged stay of the
775 1| the middle and so become entangledwith each other, and draw the
776 1| that then, by means of this entanglement (which cannot be seen anywhere)
777 1| first piece, and produce entanglementslike the former ones? ~ ~The
778 1| virtue of the rebounds and entanglementsof atoms, it would be certainly
779 1| in the same way that it entered?" Havingabruptly made these
780 3| our part, however, having enumerated all the different considerations -
781 2| Aristotle is shown by an enumeration of the aforesaid doctrines,
782 3| to be nourished, it too envelops its nutriment and clasps
783 1| Here, then, we must praise Epicurusfor the respect he shows towards
784 3| of the uterus but of the epigastric muscles, which also help
785 1| peritoneum but also the epigastrium,and will become dispersed
786 2| my part, being abundantly equipped with terms which are equally
787 1| throughout in an artistic and equitable manner, having certainfaculties,
788 1| is so called only by an equivocation. Also, that whichis still
789 1| isspeaking neither good Erasistratism, nor good Asclepiadism,
790 2| greatest and most obvious error. For if the yellow bile
791 3| never shows itself either in eructations or in the vomited matter,
792 1| from the peritoneum and is essentially the same as it, and that
793 1| as does the sieve-like [ethmoid] passage in the nose and
794 3| necessary to put the fires of Etna under the stomach before
795 3| purges the whole body and evacuates the plethoras; the passage
796 1| if the medicine does not evacuatethe dropsical fluid contained
797 1| unintelligent and slow-witted that evenby the time they have reached
798 1| of jaundice it will not evenevacuate four cyathi of phlegm? Similarly
799 1| implanted in the bladder, evenhad the audacity to say that
800 1| This is so obvious that eventhose who make experience alone
801 1| by the naturalcourse of events to enter into some kind
802 2| as well, and if we arrive eventually at inharmonious and indivisible
803 1| carrying the pabulum in everydirection; these are like a number
804 1| quasi-nutriment; and to everythingelse - that is, contained in
805 1| sequence, about which Epicurus evidentlycares little. ~ ~Now people of
806 1| 13. Now the extent of exactitude and truth in the doctrines
807 3| not given them impartial examination. ~ The fact is that he whose
808 1| all; for his theory, when examined, wouldbe found as it stands
809 1| corpuscles must be looked on as exceedinglysmall, so that some of them are
810 1| slaves introducedby the excellent Menander into his comedies.
811 3| that not merely pneuma or excess-matter, but actual nutriment is
812 1| career, and have managed by excessiverascality to escape many and frequent
813 1| in the vena cava; it is excluded, not merelyowing to the
814 2| owing to the membranous excrescences, no other parts save the
815 1| ask, through which it is excreted?For, if the kidneys produce
816 2| there are two organs for the excretion of urine, and another of
817 1| Asclepiades, when all subtle excuses had failed him and there
818 1| stomach does not appear to exerciseany traction." Let us testify
819 3| violent, then the viscus exerts far the strongest traction.
820 1| faculties of Nature have been exhaustivelydealt with, and the animal would
821 1| and all their words are an exhortation to the bladderto increase
822 1| as also their faculties, existfor the sake of this nutritive
823 1| the abnormal matters were expelled, then alldrugs which disperse
824 3| intestines takes place at the expense of the heart itself and
825 2| have been overthrown by the experts and are lying on their backs
826 3| consider inspiration and expiration. For of course these also
827 3| qualities, as has already been explained, it also happens that, in
828 1| prove to be not merely an explanationof terms but at the same time
829 1| order to find some plausible explanationwhich does not demand the principle
830 1| Whoever, therefore, wishes to expose the absurdity oftheir hypotheses,
831 3| after the gullet has been exposed - we have thus sufficiently
832 1| complete, and to constitute an expositionof all the faculties of Nature.
833 1| recognize what Nature effects, expresses his admiration of her,and
834 2| same place, the one kind extending to the gall-bladder and
835 1| principles are now entirely extinct, whilethese alone maintain
836 1| to possess thepower of extracting these substances as well. ~ ~
837 3| it requires nothing from extraneous sources, but if ever it
838 3| so. For in people who are extremely asthenic it is just these
839 1| can it be otherwise than extremelyfoolish to suppose that a thorn
840 1| lower end of the inferior extremity; and, since they interlockwith
841 1| anxious to see it withmy own eyes. Afterwards, when experience
842 1| bulk and weight, but the factis never detected by the onlookers
843 1| obviously moist enough,- in factit is thoroughly saturated,-
844 1| inflammations ought ipso facto; to possess thepower of
845 1| deprived of plausibility by the factthat people die of retention
846 1| number and character of the facultiesof Nature, and what is the
847 1| does by virtue of certain facultieswhich she possesses - these being,
848 1| the stomach, a pulsatile facultyin the heart, and in each of
849 1| flameof the lamp, or the faggots which, in a somewhat longer
850 2| also be able to rectify the failures of function. "This is no
851 2| importance at all, or acts quite faintly and feebly? But Erasistratus
852 1| obvious, and to pin one's faith in thingswhich could not
853 1| stime in dissipating the fallacious arguments which they bring
854 2| plainly that he recognized the fallacy of his own way of thinking. ~
855 1| obvious that the faculty also fallsinto the category of the relative;
856 1| then, that they honour the falseequally with the true. For everyone
857 1| it. Forif one diligently familiarizes oneself with the writings
858 1| Those who wish to do so may familiarizethemselves with these arguments, and
859 1| nonsense? It has to do with the famous and far-renowned stone which
860 1| to do with the famous and far-renowned stone which draws iron [
861 3| itself; and those which are farther from the heart and skin
862 1| down in this rhetorical fashion withoutsome proof; state
863 2| that any one of the things fashioned by it may come into existence,
864 3| food should, during long fasts, be drawn back from the
865 2| Hippocrates says, "Dysentery is a fatal condition if it proceeds
866 1| least this view also found favour and flourished,and was held
867 2| or acts quite faintly and feebly? But Erasistratus himself
868 2| presentation in order to feed them up, he argues that
869 2| third quantum, and thus by feeding it acquires for itself considerable
870 2| according to his statement, fell from the singing-girl and
871 3| the sophistries of these fellows and have given credence
872 1| happens, I was surprised, and felt anxious to see it withmy
873 2| the grape, and which is fermenting and undergoing alteration
874 2| until the patient has become fevered; neither the bubo nor the
875 2| human beings digest badly in fevers, adding as the cause that
876 1| of Ionia, and among not a fewother nations. As they rub, they
877 3| of two coats this kind of fibre is found in the one coat
878 2| vein lying adjacent; this fictitious vessel, perceptible only
879 1| city in wagons, and wish to filch someaway without being detected,
880 1| specious theory concerning the fillingof a vacuum. This, however,
881 1| do not act like sieves, filtering fluidsent to them by the
882 1| the wine isthrown into the filters. Further, the example of
883 1| I werequite incapable of finding any plausible answer! ~ ~
884 3| the food in a vaporous and finely divided condition, storing
885 3| enough to admit the little finger," then that "it is bigger
886 1| forcible tractionwith our fingers, and yet come away painlessly
887 3| was necessary to put the fires of Etna under the stomach
888 3| logical sequence must be firmly persuaded from what we have
889 1| capable of being proved. The firstis the heaviness of the serous
890 1| to be in contact with the firststylet at any point; from this
891 1| in as much as he was the firstto recognize what Nature effects,
892 1| Aristotle, in fact, was the firstwho attempted to bring back
893 2| some people have thought fit to name it, and then ascribes
894 2| alimentary canal, that part which fits both kinds of stomata is
895 1| entirely used up in the flameof the lamp, or the faggots
896 2| dropsy which begins in the flanks or in any other susceptible
897 3| tending to become of a more fleshy nature in the gullet. Now
898 3| sort of mess of wheaten flour and water, there after cutting
899 1| refilled, no more could ever flowin than had been evacuated.
900 1| act like sieves, filtering fluidsent to them by the vena cava,
901 2| them the so-called female flux ends in this disorder. I
902 3| the cause of the so-called fluxions, for every part has a definite
903 2| body." But, you sapient folk, Erasistratus himself supposed
904 1| defended ourselves in the followingterms: ~ ~"My good sir, do not
905 1| discussed more fully in the book followingthis. ~ ~
906 3| a good appetite for such foods as are proper to the stomach;
907 1| nutriment would be considereda fool. ~ ~16. Now, while Erasistratus
908 2| to me to have done very foolishly in reducing the simple vessels
909 2| could reach such a pitch of foolishness as to be recognizing the
910 1| embeddedin a young man's foot fail to come out when we
911 1| last they abandoned it. Forapparently the following two points
912 1| not know that if a drug forattracting phlegm be given in a case
913 3| remaining exit and would thus forcibly expel all the waste-matter
914 3| similarly when the uterus is forcing the embryo forward it sometimes
915 3| activities, but has also fore-ordained the times both of rest and
916 3| previously drawn. Now Nature foresaw this necessity, and provided
917 1| even if it were probable forevery other reason that the vapours
918 1| urinary secretion.Here let us forget the absurdities of Asclepiades,
919 1| wish to be done with it. Forif one diligently familiarizes
920 2| But if each of the parts formed were to remain as small
921 1| the animal is still being formedin the womb, are all the different
922 1| somewhat unusual. We, however, forour part, are convinced that
923 1| what are we to say? That, forsooth, some of the particles thatflow
924 1| another piece of nonsense; forthe sophists do not allow one
925 1| necessarily pass straight forwardthrough everything which in any
926 1| later set his hand are to be foundfirst in the writings of Hippocrates. ~ ~
927 1| as they are, could hold fourwhole congii, and sometimes even
928 1| smell suddenly become quite fragrant, nor again, canthe converse
929 2| we at once become much freer from thirst than if we had
930 3| as regards the substances freshly swallowed, it had grasped
931 1| and softness, viscosity, friability, lightness, heaviness,density,
932 1| and one of sociability and friendship for kindred.According to
933 1| bitter, or, conversely, frombeing bitter now becomes sweet,
934 1| the cause of what results fromit, and of nothing else - it
935 1| we can derive nourishment fromradishes, albeit not to the same
936 2| cause of disease? For the fruit of the enquiry into activities
937 3| large quantities of big fruit-stones; one person who was holding
938 3| the region of the stomach fulfil a double service or purpose?
939 3| faculty into play has been fulfilled, it then stops this faculty
940 3| intermediate degrees of fulness, just as is the case with
941 1| anything to say about the functionof the kidneys, but that either
942 2| which the ancient writers furnished? Or will you take a midway
943 2| thought for the animals' future, and was workmanlike in
944 1| obviouslybe danger of the opinion gaining ground that there is in
945 1| injure them.This is a common game in the district of Ionia,
946 2| which the veins from the gateway [of the liver] conduct the
947 1| doctrines of Hippocratesmay be gauged, not merely from the way
948 1| exception of that which gave the first place to attraction,
949 1| already being assimilated he gavethe name of nutriment; to the
950 1| which is, in general terms, generative and alterative, and, in
951 2| which are primary and most generic are four in number, and
952 3| whom the mouth cavity is of generous proportions, and the stomach
953 1| which cannot mix with the genuine crows owing to its colour,
954 1| burnt bronze itself, and germander,and wild mastich dissolve
955 3| the uterus during that of gestation. ~ Thus too, the coat of
956 1| Asclepiadeans" are like the Davi and Getae - the slaves introducedby
957 1| he did not wish either to getinto difficulties or to mention
958 1| talk nonsense whenever one getsinto discussion with such men.
959 3| which form as it were a girdle round the whole organ -
960 1| acquainted with, if you have givenany sort of scientific consideration
961 2| this point, also, I would gladly have been able to ask Erasistratus
962 2| nerve, cartilage, fat, gland, membrane, and marrow are
963 2| while they suffer from gnawing pains in the stomach - but
964 3| one might say, the end or goal of the activity corresponding
965 2| is, they revere him as a god, and think that everything
966 1| What will be the end of it Godknows! ~ ~Now, we usually refrain
967 1| our offspring,nor do the gods care anything for us. This
968 1| and so to empty the veins goingto the kidneys; these veins
969 1| bladder. It was, of course, a grand and impressivething to do,
970 1| yellow bile, he makes an even grander and more spirited venture;
971 2| long ago pressed from the grape, and which is fermenting
972 3| abundance of stones, bones, grape-pips, or other things which cannot
973 3| ourselves, in our eagerness to grasp more quickly something lying
974 3| freshly swallowed, it had grasped these accurately both above
975 1| who wish may get a good graspof the views of the ancients
976 3| contents be very small, it grasps the whole of them and does
977 1| draw any nourishment from grass, althoughthis is possible
978 1| certain definite period, a greatnumber of parts become constituted
979 2| exercise its peristaltic and grinding functions, how are we going
980 3| movement as though it had grown round and become united
981 2| suppose they were under no guardianship, lacking in creative ingenuity
982 3| Firstly in the condition of gurgling, which physicians are persuaded,
983 2| dropsy produced by chronic haemorrhoids which have been suppressed,
984 2| destroyed, or, at least hampered, by any damage to the qualities,
985 2| therein and to reach and handle all portions of the material.
986 1| the superiorextremity must hang from the lodestone, and
987 1| imagine a small lodestone hanging in a house, and in contactwith
988 3| this can be plainly seen happening even in a dead man, if water
989 1| he were to say that this happensin all cases, he would, I imagine,
990 1| Sophists who is a thoroughly hardened disputer and as skilful
991 1| all cleansing processes, harder to healthan any itch! ~ ~
992 1| tangible distinctionsare hardness and softness, viscosity,
993 2| a young one, that it is harmful for those who are naturally
994 2| bile; for the one kind is harmless, whereas that containing
995 1| abundance of organs which Nature hascreated for the purpose of nutrition.
996 1| flow into a vacuum than hasrun out. For, if no other factor
997 3| taken the benefit of it hastens to get rid of all the surplusage
998 3| aversion to, or, as it were, a hatred of the foreign quality.
999 1| trickery would appear to haveachieved nothing, but to have been
1000 1| elements, he ought properly to havealso referred the causes of all
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