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1001 1| known to us of all those who havebeen both physicians and philosophers
1002 1| subjects with which we havedealt at greater length in another
1003 1| less so, he might perhaps haveeven Hippocrates on his side;
1004 1| well, they must, of course, havehooks there too. Keep in mind
1005 1| which pass into the liver haveno resemblance either to arteries,
1006 1| For those of them which haveto do with alteration prepare
1007 1| same way that it entered?" Havingabruptly made these and similar remarks
1008 2| practice Erasistratus makes havoc of it a thousand times over.
1009 1| cleansing processes, harder to healthan any itch! ~ ~Thus, one of
1010 2| those who are perfectly healthy have, under the compulsion
1011 3| we must not now desire to hear about matters of this kind
1012 3| so foolish that, when he hears the Ancients saying that
1013 3| nausea and the so-called heartburn clearly demonstrate the
1014 3| viscera like a lot of burning hearths around a great cauldron -
1015 2| the least useful. Then, in Heaven's name, is it useful to
1016 3| Asclepiades reached such heights of wisdom that they deprived
1017 1| For all this, however, heis not to be disregarded; he
1018 1| comedies. As these slaves heldthat they had done nothing fine
1019 1| ever practised anatomy, hemight have known that the outer
1020 3| forthwith ceases and allows the heretofore inoperative faculty to come
1021 3| with such matters. Thus Herophilus does not hesitate to state
1022 | herself
1023 1| themore shameless continues to hide the missing article beneath
1024 2| them. Now, all of these the high and mighty Erasistratus
1025 1| artistic-nay, the best and highest art - doing everything for
1026 1| animal's penis and allows himto urinate, then again ligatures
1027 3| distending this coat and hindering its action. ~ But Erasistratus
1028 1| truth in the doctrines of Hippocratesmay be gauged, not merely from
1029 1| he does not mention the Hippocraticview even to the extent of a
1030 1| Asclepiadism, far lessgood Hippocratism. He is, therefore, as the
1031 1| the Cnidian berry, and Hippophaes, do not drawphlegm from
1032 1| after them. So far, then, as hishypotheses regarding causation go,
1033 1| considerations, he even expressed hissurprise that I should try to overturn
1034 3| Aristotle writes in his "History of Animals"; he also adds
1035 1| reply of Erasistratus in histreatise "On Deglutition" was neither
1036 1| make any statement as to hisviews on the secretion of urine. ~ ~
1037 3| animal, if you will try to hit upon the time at which the
1038 3| instead of it another faculty hitherto quiescent - the propulsive
1039 2| and motionless, lurking in holes like corpses. Further, the
1040 3| than with the largest and hollowest organs? Personally I do
1041 1| occupy a position beneath the hollowvein [vena cava] as does the
1042 2| maintained by those who postulate homoeomeries? Assuredly it would be much
1043 1| just called elementary, homogeneous, and simple. And I shall
1044 1| elements is given to all the homogeneousparts of the body, and these are
1045 3| the stomach, or honey more honey-like! ~ Erasistratus, however,
1046 3| that. To such an one my hope has been that my treatise
1047 1| bladder; even thus we hardly hoped tocheck their nonsensical
1048 2| putting the cart before the horse. Because, in the case of
1049 1| special activities to these. Howis it that he uses the four
1050 1| each drug attracts that humourwhich is proper to it? Possibly
1051 1| extraordinary man, whether we give a hydragogueor a cholagogue in a case of
1052 1| Similarly also if one of the hydragoguesbe given. A cholagogue, on
1053 2| assumption of food by the hypothetical elements. For it has been
1054 3| resolved into pernicious ichors, and so irritates and bites
1055 1| first place to attraction, Icould find none which even approached
1056 2| consequently in winter lie idle and motionless, lurking
1057 1| habit, who has lived neither idlynor too luxuriously, you will
1058 1| of attracting semen," or ifhe [Erasistratus] had thought
1059 1| smell, and sight. Therefore, ifyou wish to know which alterative
1060 1| relative; and so long as we are ignorantof the true essence of the
1061 2| thus the animal should fall ill, either as a whole, or in
1062 2| subjects who are suffering from illness and have become very emaciated,
1063 1| phenomena are tricks and illusions of oursenses; the senses,
1064 3| has been said by the most illustrious of the Ancients. And when
1065 1| of a ship, and wax ofan image. ~ ~Growth is an increase
1066 1| animalsare steered by certain images and memories. ~ ~Some of
1067 2| also those who say that imbibed fluids are carried into
1068 1| what Nature does, for to imitatethis is beyond the power not
1069 1| the present treatise; for immediate purposes we only need to
1070 3| if the animal takes food immediately after these [three stages]
1071 2| suppressed, or which, through immoderate bleeding, have given the
1072 3| exercise such a faculty immoderately, violent pains cause forcible
1073 1| they areunchangeable and immutable from eternity to eternity,
1074 2| movements will not merely not impair the function of the stomach
1075 2| wound was not capable of impairing it, nor yet the bubo, for,
1076 2| eucrasia that the primary impairments of these activities necessarily
1077 3| they have not given them impartial examination. ~ The fact
1078 1| invisible - indeed, entirely imperceptible. His view, in fact,is that
1079 2| diarrhoea which follows imperfect digestion of food; certainly
1080 2| important whether the aliment be imperfectly chylified in the stomach
1081 1| the perfectly compact and impervious body that it is, withtwo
1082 1| peritoneal coat is more imperviousthan the bladder, and this is
1083 1| the kidneys and becoming implanted in the bladder, evenhad
1084 2| these simple vessels was impraticable according to the teachings
1085 2| flows to the semen from the impregnated female and which is, so
1086 3| qualities of the animal's flesh impressed upon them. And you may observe
1087 1| are led like cattle by the impressionof our senses, and are unable
1088 1| of course, a grand and impressivething to do, to mistrust the obvious,
1089 2| Therefore Hippocrates not improperly advised those who were naturally
1090 1| timeover the construction of impudent sophisms, the one party
1091 1| lung, if it corresponds inamount to the size of the viscus,
1092 1| affected now in one way, now inanother, whereas the underlying
1093 2| then, we must call Nature "inartistic"; for this necessarily follows
1094 2| however, it suits well enough, inasmuch as the alteration which
1095 1| Asclepiades goes far astray inbidding us distrust our senses where
1096 3| distention, irritation, or burden inciting each of these organs to
1097 3| for the stomach obviously inclines towards its own proper qualities
1098 2| by Plato and many others, including the Empiric physicians.
1099 2| Now these two things are incompatible. For how could Nature be
1100 2| by the artificer is still incomplete. Then, when does it grow?
1101 3| sophistries. It is, he says, inconceivable that digestion, involving
1102 2| brought forward false or inconclusive arguments, while the Erasistratean
1103 2| and, thereafter, gradually increased it until it reached its
1104 1| viewed with suspicion the incredible characterof the cause mentioned,
1105 2| within itself any formative, incremental, nutritive, or, in a word,
1106 2| and cannot reach to an indefinite distance, and if, therefore,
1107 2| by the stomach to persist indefinitely, we have no further need
1108 3| all that we have correctly indicated in this book. For the present,
1109 3| to give a naturalist an indication of their functions. For
1110 3| swallowed various hard and indigestible objects; yet all these people
1111 2| abnormal heat - will give them indigestion. For to say, on the one
1112 2| eventually at inharmonious and indivisible elements, we shall most
1113 1| says nothing, the other indulges inshameless lying. ~ ~17.
1114 2| any other viscus becomes indurated. ~ The learned Erasistratus,
1115 2| other part, but always by induration of the liver, is the standpoint
1116 3| which Hippocrates blames for inertia of the uterus when he says:- "
1117 2| or any part, one will be inevitably compelled to acknowledge
1118 1| particular substance. For infact the two bladders - that
1119 1| attachedto the lower end of the inferior extremity; and, since they
1120 1| from this arrangement he infers their characteristicuse
1121 3| also the case in ileus; the inflamed intestine is unable to support
1122 1| alldrugs which disperse inflammations ought ipso facto; to possess
1123 1| previously, whilein nutrition the inflowing material becomes assimilated
1124 2| Erasistratus himself to inform me what the altering, coagulating,
1125 1| Hippocrates was the first who took inhand to demonstrate that there
1126 1| observed facts. Thus, Epicurus, inhis desire to adhere to the
1127 1| synthesis, ofjustice or injustice, of the beautiful or ugly;
1128 2| the others do; this man's innovations in nomenclature have also
1129 1| receives nourishment. And inorder that this may come about,
1130 1| in stupid - I might say insane - language, to contradict
1131 1| this: "Hippocrates lies insaying 'The flesh attracts both
1132 1| them but is certainly not insertedinto them. Now, if the blood
1133 1| nothing, the other indulges inshameless lying. ~ ~17. Now such of
1134 1| of the bladder increases insize, the thinner, necessarily,
1135 1| original difficulty which was insoluble by Erasistratus and by all
1136 1| before makes a more careful inspection. Yet, if you care toset
1137 3| which disturbs you, consider inspiration and expiration. For of course
1138 3| love for truth, like one inspired; neither day nor night may
1139 2| which would be useful for insufficiently warm substances, becomes
1140 1| atrophy and wasting, from an insufficientsupply of moisture; the flesh is
1141 3| anyone, however slow his intellect, will now be at a loss to
1142 2| humour. This, according to intelligent physicians and philosophers,
1143 3| when the appetite is very intense, the stomach rises up, so
1144 1| are, in all, four mutually interactingqualities, and that to the operation
1145 1| extremities by which they interlock with each otherto be? For
1146 1| extremity; and, since they interlockwith each other by their sides
1147 2| alteration, and complete intermixture. And, owing to this necessity,
1148 1| are like a number of roads intersecting the wholebody. ~ ~Thus there
1149 2| not a vacuum such as this, interspersed in small portions among
1150 3| once, and others after an interval; to all of them in any case
1151 1| semen should remain longer inthese latter ducts, these being
1152 1| attractive faculty at all inthose things which are governed
1153 1| example of milk being made intocheese will show clearly what I
1154 1| you bring a second stylet intocontact with the lower end of the
1155 1| being divided and broken up intoinharmonious elements and absurd "molecules."
1156 1| Davi and Getae - the slaves introducedby the excellent Menander into
1157 1| as though merelya kind of introduction had been given to the practical
1158 3| retaining it. ~ Now we are not inventing this for ourselves: one
1159 1| demonstration.I have, however, also investigated these questions, in so far
1160 2| announcing that you are investigating natural activities with
1161 2| why should we not make investigations concerning the blood as
1162 1| ancients from our own personal investigationsinto these matters. ~ ~The discussion
1163 2| to that of the scientific investigator." Are you, then, going to
1164 2| mingling and alteration involve the entire substance. Moreover,
1165 3| digestion of food in the stomach involves a transmutation of it into
1166 3| inconceivable that digestion, involving as it does such trifling
1167 3| manner anything makes its way inwards from the outer surface of
1168 1| according to the manner inwhich the four qualities are mixed.
1169 1| game in the district of Ionia, and among not a fewother
1170 1| disperse inflammations ought ipso facto; to possess thepower
1171 1| not interlocked with the ironbelow, this would be of no use.
1172 3| contained in it), for it is irrational to suppose that one part
1173 1| facts only which are plainly irreconcilable withthe views of Asclepiades?
1174 3| resulting from internal irritants (e.g., in the administration
1175 3| eliminating what is troublesome or irritating, it is not surprising that
1176 1| For this, too, although it isall thrown into the wicker strainers,
1177 1| white becomes black, or what isblack becomes white, it undergoes
1178 1| and, on the other, of what isforeign. Further, she skilfully
1179 1| downwards, and only when it isin the vena cava, still it
1180 1| recognize that this phenomenon isnot more indicative of the one
1181 1| name, as previously stated, isnutrition, and the definition corresponding
1182 1| ureter which was ligatured isobviously full and distended on the
1183 1| Principles." Thus Lycus isspeaking neither good Erasistratism,
1184 1| as the whole of the wine isthrown into the filters. Further,
1185 1| it further; then they rub itagain. This they do several times,
1186 1| than the first, although italso flourished at one time.
1187 1| the other view, but that itapplies equally to both, we should
1188 1| case of those from which itcan do so, it cannot do this
1189 1| harder to healthan any itch! ~ ~Thus, one of our Sophists
1190 1| it, which has engendered itfrom the menstrual blood of the
1191 1| attraction. Further, he says that itis on similar principles that
1192 1| thereafter its maintenance of itselfas long as possible. ~ ~The
1193 1| ligature had been taken - is itselfflaccid, but has filled the bladder
1194 1| part of the body draws to itselfthe juice which is proper to
1195 1| draws the moisture into itselfthrough the jar and acquires additional
1196 1| undergoes no change from itsexisting state, we say that it is
1197 1| retaining at the same time itsparticular form. And two other kinds
1198 1| having done so, attaches itto every portion of itself,
1199 1| one to the iron. For if itwere attached to the stone above
1200 2| could not turn wax into ivory and gold, nor yet gold into
1201 1| moisture into itselfthrough the jar and acquires additional
1202 1| detected, they fill earthen jars with water and stand them
1203 1| bile from the bodies of jaundicedsubjects, but actually turns the
1204 3| incisions, from the lower jaw to the thorax, the outer
1205 3| the small intestine, the jejunum, the pylorus, the stomach,
1206 1| opposing plain fact; he joins issue in this matter also,
1207 1| thereafter devotinga long time to judging and testing the true and
1208 1| clear tones,he concluded by jumping up and departing - leaving
1209 2| Either they mean there is a junction between the termination
1210 1| by the drugs themselves, justas yellow bile is produced
1211 2| have also been amply done justice to by Plato. Thus, the white-coloured
1212 1| formative process. One would be justifiedin calling this substance which
1213 2| before - then, I say, one may justly ask him what it is that
1214 1| secretionoccurs. ~ ~But even if he kept silence, I am not going
1215 1| reason that Erasistratus keptsilence and Asclepiades lied; they
1216 1| neither was able to cure a kidney ailment, norjaundice, nor
1217 1| ureter) which runs from each kidneyinto the bladder, and from this
1218 1| better to maintain that the kidneyshave no attractive action at
1219 1| percolating through the kidneysthemselves, is thus rendered serviceable,
1220 3| the arteries. If you will kill an [...]~
1221 3| which emit venom, some it kills at once, and others after
1222 1| sociability and friendship for kindred.According to the other school,
1223 1| one. Thus, if they do not knowall that has been written, "
1224 1| writings. If, however, they knowthese, and yet willingly prefer
1225 1| used up in the flameof the lamp, or the faggots which, in
1226 2| functions to the smallness or largeness of canals, or to any other
1227 1| quantity in each of the largerviscera; thus, for example, that
1228 3| become much stronger and more lasting; they persist as long as
1229 1| the worst doctrine of all, lately invented by Lycus of Macedonia,
1230 1| they always get soundly laughedat by all who happen to be
1231 3| spine happen to be naturally lax. ~ A wonderful device of
1232 3| that, by reason of their laziness, they will not even make
1233 2| mean by claiming that their leader was associated with these
1234 1| phlegmto a young man of a lean and warm habit, who has
1235 2| becomes indurated. ~ The learned Erasistratus, however, overlooks -
1236 1| for my own part, I first learnedof what happens, I was surprised,
1237 1| It is worth while, then, learninghow his theory accounts for
1238 1| Asclepiades, and if he also learns the reasonwhy nothing regurgitates
1239 1| whole lengthas far as the legs; thus one division does
1240 1| extends along its whole lengthas far as the legs; thus one
1241 1| reason replied at great lengthto certain other foolish doctrines,
1242 3| the middle of the night, a lengthy period having elapsed since
1243 3| length, but contract and lessen its breadth. For he says
1244 1| nor good Asclepiadism, far lessgood Hippocratism. He is, therefore,
1245 1| that they disbelieve it, lest they should betray their
1246 1| and, more particularly lettuce,beet, and the like, require
1247 2| those assumed by Epicurus, Leucippus, and Democritus. For I see
1248 3| mouth is also a cure for lichens; it even rapidly destroys
1249 1| cartilage, nerve, membrane, ligament,vein, and so forth, at the
1250 1| that the ureter which was ligatured isobviously full and distended
1251 1| rupturing; on removing the ligaturefrom them, one then plainly sees
1252 1| viscosity, friability, lightness, heaviness,density, rarity,
1253 1| Besides, if the kidneys are likesieves, and readily let the thinner
1254 3| exercise, or who have had a limb cut off, there occurs at
1255 1| active. Similarly, when the limbs have their positiontheir
1256 2| residue passes through fine linen or lint or a or a sieve
1257 3| superfluous substance which lingers in the body must obviously
1258 2| passes through fine linen or lint or a or a sieve more easily
1259 1| will collect and become liquefied (just asin dropsical subjects
1260 3| Furthermore, the fact that it is liquids which remain longest in
1261 3| stomach is distended and loaded and because the fluid runs
1262 3| advantageous and proper to it, it loathes and rids itself of what
1263 2| phlegm. Of occupations also, localities and seasons, and, above
1264 2| life, season of the year, locality, or occupation, honey is
1265 1| when they feel pain in the loins and pass sandy matter in
1266 3| is liquids which remain longest in these people's stomachs
1267 3| said was that many of the longnecked animals bend down to swallow.
1268 3| adjacent viscera like a lot of burning hearths around
1269 2| which they contain in their lumens, then either a completely
1270 2| some way, and not even a lunatic could say that this was
1271 2| lie idle and motionless, lurking in holes like corpses. Further,
1272 1| lived neither idlynor too luxuriously, you will with great difficulty
1273 1| lately invented by Lycus of Macedonia,but which is popular owing
1274 1| proverb says, "to behave madlyamong madmen"- let us return again
1275 1| says, "to behave madlyamong madmen"- let us return again to
1276 1| size, and thereafter its maintenance of itselfas long as possible. ~ ~
1277 3| the organ itself, or the major part of its contents also
1278 1| Chrysippus, I must beg of them to makethemselves familiar with these men'
1279 3| and their disorders and maladies plainly take place on analogous
1280 3| semen which comes from the male, and that they are retaining
1281 2| itself becomes much more malignant than when in its normal
1282 3| stomach before it could manage to alter the food; or else
1283 1| of their career, and have managed by excessiverascality to
1284 3| lines, some so clearly and manifestly as to need no demonstration,
1285 2| from its material, but it manifests them in connection therewith. ~
1286 1| Meteorology," his "Problems," and manyother works he uses the uses the
1287 2| woven on to its end or margin, other material similar
1288 1| as do we when wego off to market!), or, if this be impossible,
1289 2| fat, gland, membrane, and marrow are not blood, though they
1290 1| each of the two compact masses (the stone and the iron)
1291 1| disputer and as skilful a master of language as there ever
1292 3| deleterious drug; the latter masters the forces of the body,
1293 1| unless they had cheated their masterthree times, so also the men I
1294 3| in others, who are still masticating their food and have not
1295 1| and germander,and wild mastich dissolve the body into water,
1296 1| undergoes alteration the materialof the animal, just as wood
1297 1| in the same state as the materialwhich actually is nourishing it,
1298 1| retained above. But, as a matterof fact, this is not so. For
1299 1| was from the tendency of matterto fill a vacuum, for, if this
1300 1| not yet nourishing (e.g. matterwhich is undergoing adhesion or
1301 3| for the foetus to attain maturity in the womb, this organ
1302 2| contains a minimum or a maximum of bile; for the one kind
1303 1| appear?" one of his adherents mayperchance ask. "For is it not indicative
1304 3| having elapsed since their meal. ~ Suppose you fill any
1305 3| must also have each been meant to have a different action.
1306 | meanwhile
1307 1| sing songs, to a certain measure,time, and rhythm, and all
1308 2| I imagine, condemn in no measured terms the carelessness of
1309 2| semen. What is it then that measures the quantity of this afflux?
1310 2| there is need of some other mechanism to explain why the blood
1311 1| rapidly on theapplication of a medicament. Yet even to this some people
1312 3| who are forced to take a medicinal draught or who take food
1313 1| bread represents a kind of meeting-place for bone, flesh, nerve,and
1314 1| steered by certain images and memories. ~ ~Some of these people
1315 1| introducedby the excellent Menander into his comedies. As these
1316 1| peopleused to be set to menial tasks.... What will be the
1317 1| unanswerably confuted by Menodotus the Empiricist,who draws
1318 1| foremost after the qualities mentionedcome the other so-called tangible
1319 1| people are not even worth mentioning. ~ ~What, then, are these
1320 1| it will seem as though merelya kind of introduction had
1321 1| enslaved to their sects are not merelydevoid of all sound knowledge,
1322 1| cava; it is excluded, not merelyowing to the long distance, but
1323 1| inserted into them, but merelysends a branch into each of them,
1324 1| in this matter also, not merelywith all physicians, but with
1325 1| convinced that the chief merit of language is clearness,
1326 1| proportion to the width of the meshespasses downwards, and this is called
1327 3| to whom I give a sort of mess of wheaten flour and water,
1328 1| therefore, we are toinvestigate methodically the number and kinds of
1329 2| their diseases, and the methods of treating these, there
1330 3| help us in defaecation and micturition. ~ 4. Thus the two faculties
1331 2| furnished? Or will you take a midway course between these two,
1332 3| foetus to make its exit. The midwife, however, does not make
1333 3| naturally enough, when the midwives palpate it, the os is found
1334 1| iron [the lodestone]. It mightbe thought that this would
1335 2| all of these the high and mighty Erasistratus affected to
1336 2| differ in no respect from a millet-seed, or, if you will, a bean;
1337 1| that this would draw their minds to a belief that thereare
1338 2| ingested food contains a minimum or a maximum of bile; for
1339 3| had not the audacity to misrepresent facts even so far as this,
1340 3| unable even to make this misrepresentation, he ought to have attempted
1341 1| shameless continues to hide the missing article beneath his armand
1342 1| impressivething to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin
1343 3| movements of each of the mobile organs of the body depend
1344 2| is produced when it is in moderation, and the other humours when
1345 3| unintelligible to the bulk of the Moderns owing to their ignorance -
1346 2| the Stoics (with a single modification, namely, that for them the
1347 1| warming, chilling, drying, or moistening;or such as spring from the
1348 2| if it become colder and moister, it must be warmed and dried;
1349 1| intoinharmonious elements and absurd "molecules." Necessarily, then, besidesmaking
1350 2| complete disappearance of the monthly discharge, or an undue evacuation
1351 3| as we know, it takes nine months in most women for the foetus
1352 1| cannot find any excuse; the moremodest one then keeps silence,
1353 1| the menstrual blood of the mother. Thus the special alterativefaculties
1354 1| will be said to undergo motionin respect to flavour; to both
1355 2| consequently in winter lie idle and motionless, lurking in holes like corpses.
1356 1| have been subjectedto the moulding or shaping process). Nutrition
1357 1| Further, she skilfully moulds everything during the stageof
1358 1| the heart, and the other mounts upon the spine and extends
1359 3| corresponding desire from the mouth-parts for the experience; the
1360 3| sensation as if the uterus were moving and contracting upon itself.
1361 1| the other viscera will be muchmore, and thus an enormous barrel
1362 1| blood may turn into bone, muchtime is needed and much elaboration
1363 3| certain biliary, phlegmatic [mucous] and serous fluids, and
1364 2| which Prodicus calls blenna [mucus], is the well-known cold,
1365 3| anything better than the multitude do must far surpass all
1366 1| and kinds of faculties, we mustbegin with the effects; for each
1367 1| urine. Then, again, one mustdivide the full ureter, and demonstrate
1368 1| all these pieces of iron mustsurely become filled with the corpuscles
1369 1| there are, in all, four mutually interactingqualities, and
1370 1| separates the two kinds of soul, naming the kind in questionvegetative,
1371 1| and among not a fewother nations. As they rub, they sing
1372 1| having been compelled by the naturalcourse of events to enter into
1373 3| itself suffice to give a naturalist an indication of their functions.
1374 1| although this second piece is naturallyin every way similar to the
1375 1| throughout the whole body; Natureacts throughout in an artistic
1376 1| actual purpose for which Naturehas constructed all these parts.
1377 3| to keep it down, they are nauseated and feel their stomach turned
1378 3| should be naturally more nearly related). Therefore, in
1379 1| you that nutrition is a necessityfor growing things. For if such
1380 2| victorious adversaries by the necks and prevent them from getting
1381 2| any part with the finest needle you will tear the whole
1382 3| digestion, even though he neglected everything else, he did
1383 2| of medicine which he was neglecting, without deigning to argue
1384 1| most certainly existed, he neithermentioned it nor denied it, nor did
1385 1| of urinecall themselves "nephritics," when they feel pain in
1386 1| example, the bone-producing, nerve-producing, and cartilage-producing
1387 | nevertheless
1388 | nine
1389 3| uterus no longer awaits the nine-months period, but the retentive
1390 2| this man's innovations in nomenclature have also been amply done
1391 2| attraction and that of the non-participation of intelligence - we shall
1392 2| of these inharmonious and non-partite corpuscles contains within
1393 1| to cure a kidney ailment, norjaundice, nor a disease of black
1394 2| time warmer and drier than normally, the first principle of
1395 1| ethmoid] passage in the nose and palate in relation to
1396 1| let him go (for he will notcontinue to urinate). After this
1397 1| then, is this? If we are notgoing to grant the kidneys a faculty
1398 1| urine. ~ ~Why did he give notice at the very beginning of
1399 1| the urine, was the belief notonly of Hippocrates, Diocles,
1400 1| outlets, so that they may notspoil the useful substances, and
1401 1| two coats; and they are notveins, since they neither contain
1402 1| because they are already nourishingthe animal, nor because they
1403 1| is popular owing to its novelty. This Lycus, then, maintains,
1404 1| winter in those who are doing nowork but are carousing, especially
1405 2| animal when she allowed a noxious humour such as this to be
1406 1| clearly seen to do good to numbers of people!"Yes," says he, "
1407 1| in utero as is also the nutritivefaculty, but that at that stage
1408 1| beneath his armand denies on oath that he has ever seen it.
1409 3| lightest and thinnest part obeys the tendency before that
1410 1| proof; state some definite objection to our view, in order thateither
1411 1| ideas were open to many objections,and he could only find one
1412 3| possible reason, then, will objectors have it that bread may often
1413 3| various hard and indigestible objects; yet all these people easily
1414 3| of those which are more obscure, dissecting animals which
1415 1| from the bladder. These observations having been made,one now
1416 1| from the fact that he daily observes both the position of thekidneys
1417 3| must test and prove it, observing what part of it is in agreement,
1418 3| once and sit down on the [obstetric] chair, but she begins by
1419 1| remaining in the veinswill obstruct the blood flowing in from
1420 3| having itself meanwhile obtained some profit from its association
1421 1| humour only, there would obviouslybe danger of the opinion gaining
1422 3| would be found, on every occasion that animals were dissected,
1423 2| of the year, locality, or occupation, honey is productive of
1424 3| the returned food; as it occupies each part in front [above],
1425 1| nourished there must first occurpresentation, next adhesion, and finally
1426 2| for these two symptoms occurred besides the bubo - an alteration
1427 1| not an alterationlike that occurring at the stage of genesis.
1428 1| Nature, but is compounded ofalteration and of shaping. That is
1429 1| superfluous, or capable ofbeing better disposed. This, however,
1430 1| For, further, there will ofcourse be others which break in
1431 2| realizes that it may smell offensively not in one way only, but
1432 1| take on a false appearance ofgrowth, not a true growth. And
1433 1| my work "On the Anatomy ofHippocrates," as well as elsewhere. ~ ~
1434 1| separation or synthesis, ofjustice or injustice, of the beautiful
1435 1| engaged in the practice ofmedicine, are of this opinion. Asclepiades,
1436 1| together the bodies both ofplants and animals; and this she
1437 1| to expose the absurdity oftheir hypotheses, must, if the
1438 1| substance does not admit of any ofthese changes to which the names
1439 1| practically every butcher is aware ofthis, from the fact that he daily
1440 1| mastered, and is not capable ofundergoing complete alteration and
1441 1| and the peritoneum full ofurine, as if the animal were suffering
1442 1| opinions from the point ofview of treatment? He neither
1443 1| faculties, one attractive ofwhat is appropriate, and another
1444 1| long way prior to them and older than they; and thereforein
1445 2| bread very little, while olive oil contains most, and wine
1446 1| also despises dreams,birds, omens, and the whole of astrology,
1447 2| ago thought it right to omit this; they say that when
1448 2| carelessness of Erasistratus in omitting a consideration so essential
1449 1| very soft cannot all at oncebecome very hard, nor vice versa;
1450 1| animals are governed at onceby their soul and by their
1451 1| upon and are acted upon by oneanother. For, if he had assumed
1452 1| vene-section; and after this onecuts through the other also,
1453 1| is, therefore, clear that oneof these terms is used in two
1454 1| or as we say, pass from oneplace to another; the name of
1455 1| diligently familiarizes oneself with the writings of Asclepiades,
1456 1| one cannot fall to make oneselfutterly ridiculous. It was for this
1457 1| inflammation and different onesfor drawing out embedded substances;
1458 1| red, and the red yellow, onesimple process of alteration is
1459 1| factis never detected by the onlookers unless someone who knew
1460 3| completed the pylorus had opened, and the stomach was undergoing
1461 1| essence of the cause which is operating, we call it afaculty. Thus
1462 1| quality which results from the operationof innate heat; therefore,
1463 1| from the way in which his opponents areat variance with obvious
1464 2| Are you, then, going to oppose those who maintain that
1465 1| fact,in this respect being opposed to Epicurus; for the latter
1466 1| no scruples, however,in opposing plain fact; he joins issue
1467 3| produce gurglings, and which oppress and overload the stomach,
1468 1| maintains,as though uttering an oracle from the inner sanctuary,
1469 1| must be altered; and in orderthat the substance so altered
1470 3| the swallowing of food is ordinarily preceded by a feeling of
1471 1| each is simple, of these organsthe coats are the are the elements -
1472 1| shall devote entirely, as we originallyproposed, to an enquiry into the
1473 1| be fluid, it thus becomes originalnewly-formed flesh; but in order that
1474 2| also made as to the primary originative cause of this? And, as regards
1475 1| us how digestion occurs, orspends time upon the secretion
1476 1| through, will do anything orsuffer anything or try any shift
1477 1| Erasistratus, Praxagoras, and all otherphysicians of eminence, but practically
1478 1| approached plausibility, all the othersbeing ridiculous and obviously
1479 1| principles. Almost all the othersects depending on similar principles
1480 1| becomes suspended? that otherspenetrate into it, and rapidly pass
1481 1| some pass these along, othersstore them up, others excrete
1482 1| that of the sting-ray, and othersthat of some other animal; we
1483 1| they interlock with each otherto be? For of course this is
1484 | ours
1485 1| tricks and illusions of oursenses; the senses, they say, are
1486 1| to the practical parts of ourteaching. For the whole matter is
1487 2| suppose blood to be the outcome of proportionate, and yellow
1488 1| routes to conduct them to the outlets, so that they may notspoil
1489 1| the urine plainly running outthrough the ureters into the bladder;
1490 2| is that we must cool the over-heated stomach and warm the warm
1491 2| been burned or, as it were, over-roasted, while using a different
1492 2| know that anything which is overcooked grows at first salt and
1493 3| gurglings, and which oppress and overload the stomach, whereas in
1494 3| occurs when the stomach is overloaded or is unable to stand the
1495 2| collapse (for this was what he overlooked), it was therefore shown
1496 2| learned Erasistratus, however, overlooks - nay, despises - what neither
1497 1| also from the fact that the overlyingheart, at each diastole, robs
1498 2| deficiency? What is this third overseer of animal generation that
1499 2| who, when they have been overthrown by the experts and are lying
1500 1| where obvious facts plainly overturnhis hypotheses. Much better
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