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1501 2| course, if it were to be overwhelmed with a great quantity of
1502 1| cannot come about, since, owingto this abundance of thin,
1503 1| which they attract their ownproper qualities. ~ ~Now Epicurus,
1504 1| fingers, and yet come away painlessly and rapidly on theapplication
1505 2| Dry and the Moist, the one pair being active the other passive,
1506 1| passage in the nose and palate in relation to the surplus
1507 3| enough, when the midwives palpate it, the os is found to be
1508 3| chair, but she begins by palpating the os as it gradually dilates,
1509 3| you think it strange or paradoxical that the air is dismissed
1510 3| exists. And it exists to partake of that which is of a quality
1511 1| without having gradually parted with its whiteness and gradually
1512 3| some who vomit up every particle of what they have eaten,
1513 1| disperses into the air, particularlyif this be also warm. ~ ~"Yes,"
1514 1| faculty for attracting this particularquality, as Hippocrates held, we
1515 1| rid of is this sectarian partizanship,so excessively resistant
1516 3| physicians, again, have been partly conquered by the sophistries
1517 1| carried towards the rarefied partof the air surrounding us (
1518 1| sensible element, of similar partsall through, simple, and uncompounded.
1519 1| veins or nerves. But these partshave been treated at a greater
1520 3| however, does not make the parturient woman get up at once and
1521 3| miscarriage but delivery or parturition. Now abortifacient drugs
1522 1| impudent sophisms, the one party strivingto prevent the lies
1523 1| excrete them; some, again, are paths for thetransit in all directions
1524 1| quantityof bile, and the skin of patients so treated at once becomes
1525 1| sequence of principles, but pays no attention to theobvious
1526 2| Nature-lore with a respectable pedigree. ~ Now, let us reverse our
1527 2| singing-girl and resembled the pellicle of an egg. And following
1528 1| penetrate it although they penetrated the first piece?and that
1529 3| which had previously been pent up in the membranes, flow
1530 1| terms which the bulk of peopleare accustomed to use, and we
1531 1| kind of dropsy which some peoplecall anasarca clearly distinguishes
1532 1| In the old days such peopleused to be set to menial tasks....
1533 2| how Erasistratus does not perceive that here again he is putting
1534 3| absurd, either through not perceiving in what sense the Ancients
1535 3| people who have a clear perception of this condition say that
1536 1| downwards; that this, after percolating through the kidneysthemselves,
1537 1| animal in every respect, performingof her own accord and without
1538 3| else when the whole foetus perishes, putrefies, and is resolved
1539 1| there appears to be no peristalsisof the gullet. "And how does
1540 1| says he, "of course the peritoneal coat is more imperviousthan
1541 1| off as sweat or insensible perspiration.This is most easily recognized
1542 1| For rhetoricproceeds by persuasive reasoning; words without
1543 2| thoroughly small-minded and petty to the last degree in all
1544 1| two sectsin medicine and philosophy among those who have made
1545 1| season a drug which attracts phlegmto a young man of a lean and
1546 3| the muscles, pass to the physical organs, and you will see
1547 1| that he employs in his "Physics" elementssimilar to those
1548 3| too, however, at least the physiologist must discover an analogy.
1549 2| commentaries on the Nature-lore [physiology] of Hippocrates - according
1550 1| same time rebound from the piececoming next in the series, although
1551 1| its colour,nor with the pigeons owing to its size. For all
1552 1| mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in thingswhich
1553 2| Erasistratus could reach such a pitch of foolishness as to be
1554 2| Erasistratus the honour of placing him in the better sect. ~
1555 2| not in accordance with my plan, but compelled by the course
1556 2| becoming an animal or a plant; for growth belongs to living
1557 1| allows a share in soul to plantsas well, and separates the
1558 2| or a basket when being plated, or a garment when being
1559 1| could he suggest any other plausiblecause, such, for example, as the
1560 2| the property of the pneuma plays an important part, when
1561 3| setting of the fibres. Now please test this assertion first
1562 3| as human faeces are most pleasing to dogs, so the residual
1563 3| themselves at will to a plentiful common stock of food; some
1564 1| like slaves who have had plentyto say in the early part of
1565 3| whole body and evacuates the plethoras; the passage of the superfluities
1566 3| Zeus! and one will often be plundering another, if he be in need
1567 2| medicine. ~ Having come to this poi in the argument, I should
1568 1| are some which attractthe poison of the viper, others that
1569 2| and we certainly cut a poor figure when we talk about
1570 1| of Macedonia,but which is popular owing to its novelty. This
1571 2| and that those of the Porch follow in the steps of his
1572 1| cannot get down, sincethe pores of the strainers will not
1573 1| when the limbs have their positiontheir position altered, it is
1574 1| expressly declared that the soul possessesno reasoning faculty, but that
1575 1| this, that then one cannot possiblygive any other reason for the
1576 1| other hand, Nature is not posterior to the corpuscles,but is
1577 2| Asclepiades, seeing that we have postulated certain inharmonious elements.
1578 1| clearly visible routes, and postulates others which are narrow,
1579 3| there in this organ more potent in producing alteration
1580 2| pernicious and acrid in its potentialities is black than yellow bile.
1581 2| that one uses the so-called potter's earth and other substances
1582 1| when certain rhetoricians pour ridicule upon that which
1583 1| is no passage left. What powerhave we, then, which will draw
1584 1| constructive Nature has powers which attract appropriate
1585 1| has absolutely no native powerswhereby she alters some substances,
1586 1| them." Yet if he had ever practised anatomy, hemight have known
1587 2| outside the sphere of the practitioner, and belong to that of the
1588 1| medicaments. Here, then, we must praise Epicurusfor the respect
1589 1| is constantly singing her praises and calling her "just."
1590 2| on the outside only. For Praxiteles and Phidias and all the
1591 2| secondarily, but of what pre-exists, to shape and to construct.
1592 2| hypothesis, Nature does not precede, but is secondary to the
1593 1| or observed that this was precededby a sharp pain in the region
1594 3| has been made clear in the preceding discussion that nutrition
1595 1| these and similar remarks in precise and clear tones,he concluded
1596 1| the faculty of growth is predominant, while thealterative and
1597 1| in various waysfrom its preexisting state, it will be said to
1598 1| motion is change from the preexistingstate, while common to all conditions
1599 1| knowthese, and yet willingly prefer the worse views to the better,
1600 3| to be closed, whilst the pregnant women themselves, during
1601 2| For, having conceded one premise to the principle that matter
1602 1| haveto do with alteration prepare the nutriment suitable for
1603 1| theory accounts for the presence of urine in the bladder,
1604 1| considerations, however, our present-day Asclepiadeansattempt to
1605 1| material which is being presentedor becoming adherent, the name
1606 3| getting the benefit of this by presenting all the useful part of it
1607 1| because I need it for the presenttreatise, that I have mentioned it.
1608 1| doesabsolutely nothing for the preservation of the animal. For his constantaim
1609 1| could she be constructive,preservative of the animal, and eliminative
1610 1| it remains unruptured and preservescompletely its previous form. ~ ~Such
1611 2| which has been not long ago pressed from the grape, and which
1612 1| view. But even this they presumed to dispute, and said thatit
1613 3| caused by its acidity - the presumption thus being that here, too,
1614 2| by Erasistratus, and he pretended to despise these great men -
1615 3| stronger would be likely to prevail, but if he had satisfied
1616 3| and just as the stronger prevailed when the two were exercising
1617 1| more shameless than the previousones; according to it, when five
1618 2| other two - that if you prick it at any part with the
1619 3| expression is not used in its primitive or strict sense. ~ But,
1620 1| first, and, so to say, the principal effects ofNature; similarly
1621 1| arguing with people whose principlesare wrong from the outset. Still,
1622 1| we admit this, the same principlewill not explain the fact that,
1623 1| corpuscles,but is a long way prior to them and older than they;
1624 1| contrary, even if it were probable forevery other reason that
1625 3| so much as the tip of a probe, that it no longer opens
1626 1| his "Meteorology," his "Problems," and manyother works he
1627 2| black bile"; while that proceeding from yellow bile is by no
1628 1| must assume a preliminary processof adhesion, and for that,
1629 2| these possess some innate proclivity for attracting nutriment.
1630 2| semen, when it begins to procreate and to shape the animal,
1631 1| are undergoing nutrition producea certain amount of residue,
1632 1| him a cholagogue, you will producean abundant evacuation and
1633 1| fluid, which was said to be producedin the vena cava, and which
1634 2| heat as is needed for the production of sweetness exists from
1635 1| which all parts share is the progressof each to its full size, and
1636 3| whereas when once it is projected into the intestines, it
1637 3| violent pains cause forcible prolapse of the whole womb; here
1638 3| sometimes becomes entirely prolapsed, and particularly when the
1639 2| animal whose digestion is promoted by pneuma will digest more,
1640 2| property by virtue of which it promotes digestion, and then to say
1641 3| under compulsion, and then promptly bring it up; or, if they
1642 1| view and makes some other pronouncementabout the function of the kidneys,
1643 2| Erasistratus, the pneuma, which is propelled through the arteries and
1644 2| upon their contents and propelling them forwards. For, apart
1645 3| co-exist - an excessive propensity for food, a small gullet,
1646 1| is destined to nourish if properlyelaborated, has been called "nutriment."
1647 1| certainly, but merely in proportionto the evacuation."... But
1648 2| mention at all - these I propose to discover and prove. ~
1649 1| remaining consideration which we proposed at theoutset. For, when
1650 2| must either advance the one proposition or the other. According
1651 1| because we were forced, as the proverb says, "to behave madlyamong
1652 3| foresaw this necessity, and provided the cardiac openings of
1653 1| stageof genesis; and she also provides for the creatures after
1654 2| animal. Now, it is not the province of what comes secondarily,
1655 2| bleeding from the womb, often provoke dropsy; and in some of them
1656 2| natural, or, still more, psychical, activities - or, in fact,
1657 1| arteries, since theydo not pulsate nor do they consist of two
1658 1| faculty in the stomach, a pulsatile facultyin the heart, and
1659 1| abovethe kidneys receive pure blood, whilst the watery
1660 1| maintain that it all undergoes purificationthere. But, as a matter of fact,
1661 3| Nature would never have purposelessly constructed the oesophagus
1662 2| enquiry can be most rigorously pursued in subjects who are suffering
1663 3| sufficiently hungry and are pursuing one of the smaller animals,
1664 3| the whole foetus perishes, putrefies, and is resolved into pernicious
1665 3| the body must obviously putrefy, some in a shorter, and
1666 2| perceive that here again he is putting the cart before the horse.
1667 2| suddenly becoming sceptics - Pyrrhonists, in fact? But if you do
1668 1| we shall apply the term qualitative motion.And further, it is
1669 1| that he employed the four qualitiesto explain the genesis of the
1670 1| recognise that all these qualitiesundergo an intimate mingling with
1671 1| attracting its own special qualityare compelled repeatedly to
1672 1| hand, clears away a great quantityof bile, and the skin of patients
1673 2| hesitate to adjudicate in their quarrel and to do Erasistratus the
1674 3| made himself ridiculous by quarrelling uselessly with a mere name -
1675 1| to go further into this questionin the present treatise; for
1676 1| soul, naming the kind in questionvegetative, and the other sensory,
1677 1| again the power flows, as quickas a thought, all through the
1678 2| out into the bile-ducts quicker than does the bile, exactly
1679 1| stealing, these two are quitebewildered, and while the one says
1680 1| not withstanding, inthe radish, what is appropriate and
1681 2| For, if it was right to raise this problem, why should
1682 3| court. For, supposing a rapid descent were dependent upon
1683 1| lightness, heaviness,density, rarity, smoothness, roughness,
1684 1| will stronglycondemn the rashness of Asclepiades, and if he
1685 1| second, and do not pass readilythrough it in the same way. Indeed,
1686 3| other has an abundant supply ready to hand. Thus it is in no
1687 1| are talking about, and who realize the logical sequenceof their
1688 2| nature of phlegm. And one who realizes that it may smell offensively
1689 1| argument,their words are really thereby constituted rhetoric.
1690 1| from below,from front and rear, from right and left, and
1691 1| impossible, then some other reasonfor its conveyance must be found.
1692 1| and if he also learns the reasonwhy nothing regurgitates from
1693 1| takes place by virtue of the rebounds and entanglementsof atoms,
1694 1| ureters are prevented from receivingback the urine from the bladder.
1695 | recent
1696 3| activation will not at once be recognisable to sense. ~ Now those parts
1697 3| operation can be actually recognised by the senses, whilst in
1698 1| purposes we only need to recognizethe complete alteration of substance.
1699 2| deadly, and most people recover from it; this proves how
1700 2| we shall also be able to rectify the failures of function. "
1701 2| blood; in some people it is redder, in others yellower, in
1702 1| whiteness and gradually acquired redness? Thus it is quite easy for
1703 2| should advise those who reduce the vessel called primary
1704 2| have done very foolishly in reducing the simple vessels to elements
1705 2| whereas, in the case of reeds and tubes it is true to
1706 1| ought properly to havealso referred the causes of all the special
1707 3| accurately elaborated and refined. ~ These, then, are what
1708 3| it is inevitable that the reflux into the venous artery (
1709 1| Godknows! ~ ~Now, we usually refrain from arguing with people
1710 1| himself, he ought to have refrained from making hypotheses,
1711 1| s artistic skill - they refuseto learn; they even go so far
1712 3| would of course be like refusing to believe that purgative
1713 1| convince us by a brilliant refutation of the ancientdoctrine,
1714 2| Asclepiades though we cannot refute it: for the disjunctive
1715 1| theyare quite incapable of refuting, without any attempt at
1716 2| they would never be able to regain their original habit. It
1717 1| again condensed,it thus regains its previous form, and turns
1718 1| here proved more ignorant regardingNature than the very peasants.
1719 2| cold and dry modes of life, regions, constitutions, and diseases.
1720 1| learns the reasonwhy nothing regurgitates from the bladder into the
1721 3| mere passive conveyance of rejected matter up to the mouth will
1722 3| completed and the gullet is released from tension, the larynx
1723 2| But let us suppose he remained true to his own statement
1724 1| Havingabruptly made these and similar remarks in precise and clear tones,
1725 2| diseases, and the discovery of remedies, were correctly stated first
1726 1| of outgrowths. Stillmore, remember how, in order that the second
1727 1| the liver condition,then removed the disease by means of
1728 1| That is to say, if you removefrom each of the organs mentioned
1729 1| We shall then, as I said, renounceour controversy with them, since
1730 1| special qualityare compelled repeatedly to deny obvious facts. For
1731 2| of evacuated matter to be replaced. ~ 7. Let us, then, consider
1732 2| abandon the principle of replacement of evacuated matter, as
1733 3| cavities are seen to be replete and full, owing to the fact
1734 1| Erasistratus for some reason replied at great lengthto certain
1735 1| nobody will supposethat bread represents a kind of meeting-place
1736 2| attraction, in so far as their requirements are greater. And I fail
1737 2| nourishment without each of these requiring it too. Now, if on the one
1738 1| various subjectsof natural research themselves - the functions
1739 1| pass into the liver haveno resemblance either to arteries, veins
1740 2| from the singing-girl and resembled the pellicle of an egg.
1741 1| and they also need certain reservoirs,as it were, in which they
1742 2| of the stomach, and what resist and contend with it. For
1743 1| partizanship,so excessively resistant to all cleansing processes,
1744 2| simple; and some venture to resolve it into yet other elementary
1745 3| urine; for even without resorting to anatomy we may observe
1746 3| and so may become more resourceful in the diagnosis and treatment
1747 3| have demonstrated elsewhere respecting the tendency of a vacuum
1748 1| we then say that in this respectit undergoes motion. Accordingly,
1749 3| absorption and purgation respectively. As a matter of fact one
1750 2| arteries; also, in his work "On Respiration," with those who maintain
1751 3| that the liver yields in response to the traction of the stomach,
1752 2| channels, little or big, resting on an unproven hypothesis,
1753 2| emaciated and who need a great restoration of nutrition, unless what
1754 2| if delivery of nutriment resulted merely from the tendency
1755 3| end fairly soon, but those resulting from internal irritants (
1756 3| present, however, let us resume again the task that lay
1757 1| place, will bid this blood retire to thelower part of the
1758 3| which are distended by the returned food; as it occupies each
1759 3| four, exist in each organ. Returning then, to this point, let
1760 2| philosophers? The fact is, they revere him as a god, and think
1761 2| certainly will not abandon their reverence for Erasistratus. Very well,
1762 3| also have their condition reversed. Thus, when the stomach
1763 1| supposethat when certain rhetoricians pour ridicule upon that
1764 1| constituted rhetoric. For rhetoricproceeds by persuasive reasoning;
1765 1| certain measure,time, and rhythm, and all their words are
1766 1| certain rhetoricians pour ridicule upon that which theyare
1767 1| overturn obvious facts by ridiculousarguments! "For," said he, "one may
1768 3| proper to it, it loathes and rids itself of what is foreign.
1769 2| our enquiry can be most rigorously pursued in subjects who
1770 3| person who was holding a gold ring in his mouth, inadvertently
1771 2| and wander from the right road, should talk such nonsense,
1772 1| overlyingheart, at each diastole, robs the vena cava by violence
1773 1| there was no longer any room for nonsense about "conveyance
1774 2| veins and arteries, like a rope woven by Nature out of three
1775 2| animals grow like webs, ropes, sacks, or baskets, each
1776 2| kind - readily spoils and rots it? And who does not know
1777 3| the thorax, the arteries rough and smooth, the heart, the
1778 1| density, rarity, smoothness, roughness, thickness and thinness;
1779 1| each will take a different route,the one flowing this way
1780 2| the children blew up and rubbed, you will also understand
1781 1| them with air, and then rubthem on ashes near the fire,
1782 2| a condition? Because its rule is that only so much of
1783 1| fact almost on the point of rupturing; on removing the ligaturefrom
1784 2| but genesis! For a bag, sack, garment, house, ship, or
1785 2| animals grow like webs, ropes, sacks, or baskets, each of which
1786 1| quality. He thereforesays that safflower, the Cnidian berry, and
1787 1| suffocated. But if it be saidthat the residual matter is equal
1788 3| surprise you; this phlegm [saliva] in the mouth is also a
1789 2| overcooked grows at first salt and afterwards bitter? And
1790 1| urinates practically the samequantity as one has drunk, which
1791 1| an oracle from the inner sanctuary, that urineis residual matter
1792 1| pain in the loins and pass sandy matter in their water. ~ ~
1793 2| it has been proved to the satisfaction of those who are capable
1794 2| do, and if none of them satisfy Erasistratus, what can the
1795 1| then (the third cup to the Saviour!), let us now speakof the
1796 1| holds thatthe flower and scales of bronze, and burnt bronze
1797 1| condition further. Moreover, scammony, according to the Asclepiadeanargument,
1798 3| contents be abundant or scanty, their cavities are seen
1799 2| false, but suddenly becoming sceptics - Pyrrhonists, in fact?
1800 1| they even go so far as to scoff, and maintain that the kidneys,
1801 3| it even rapidly destroys scorpions; while, as regards the animals
1802 1| had assumed; he showed no scruples, however,in opposing plain
1803 2| not know that brine and sea-water preserve meat and keep it
1804 2| and above this, neglect to search for the factors of most
1805 2| the province of what comes secondarily, but of what pre-exists,
1806 2| does not precede, but is secondary to the parts of the animal.
1807 1| not rebound, how does the secondpiece become suspended to the
1808 1| longer be able to conduct a secondquantity of unpurified blood to the
1809 1| That these areorgans for secreting [separating out] the urine,
1810 1| as to the manner in which secretionoccurs. ~ ~But even if he kept
1811 1| evil to get rid of is this sectarian partizanship,so excessively
1812 1| arisen the following two sectsin medicine and philosophy
1813 1| front of the ureters, then secure these with ligatures,and
1814 3| its contents, whilst the sediment it clears away by diarrhoea.
1815 1| to fall into the kidneys, seeingthat these are not situated below,
1816 2| shall show - we must then seek another cause for nutrition. ~
1817 2| recognizing their fall, actually seize their victorious adversaries
1818 3| animal has nothing to eat, seizes it from the veins in the
1819 1| wisdom, temperance, and self-control are all mere nonsense, we
1820 2| demonstration, as being self-evident (since they never suspected
1821 2| right ventricle, thereafter sending it through the arterioid
1822 3| this organ possesses most sensibility, and among its other affections
1823 1| number corresponding to its sensibleelements. The name sensible elements
1824 1| questionvegetative, and the other sensory, this person is not saying
1825 1| rendered serviceable, and is sent, as blood, toall the parts
1826 1| fine particles, which are separatedfrom one another by empty spaces. ~ ~
1827 1| soul to plantsas well, and separates the two kinds of soul, naming
1828 1| areorgans for secreting [separating out] the urine, was the
1829 1| its own kind; before any separationtakes place, the whole of the
1830 1| piececoming next in the series, although this second piece
1831 2| kinds of serum. And all the serums in the humours are waste
1832 3| of the body depend on the setting of the fibres. Now please
1833 2| have given the patient a severe chill; similarly, in women,
1834 3| expulsion downwards when the severest part of the inflammation
1835 3| surrounding the gullet, without severing any of the nerves, arteries,
1836 1| right and left, and which shake and agitatethem and never
1837 1| require have been stated. I shallnow say what ones the nutritive
1838 1| elsewherethat these opinions were shared by Hippocrates, who lived
1839 3| to attract from and to go shares with everything else, and,
1840 3| causes no further trouble but sharply purges the whole body and
1841 2| do this you will have to shelter yourselves behind the Empiricist
1842 3| movement), and the omentum sheltering them all - you may believe
1843 3| part of the animal has been shewn to draw into itself the
1844 1| orsuffer anything or try any shift in order to find some plausible
1845 3| constantly changing and shifting its position, neither adhesion
1846 3| the force of the traction shifts to the latter. ~ Suppose
1847 3| obviously putrefy, some in a shorter, and some in a longer time,
1848 2| could live or endure for the shortest time if, possessing within
1849 3| the intestine; as we shall shortly demonstrate, most of it
1850 1| constricted, and that it shouldflow quickly down the ducts which
1851 1| the forethought and art shownby Nature in relation to animals. ~ ~
1852 1| to any other part of the sideit does not become attached.
1853 1| vena cava] as does the sieve-like [ethmoid] passage in the
1854 1| Erasistratus had the sense to keep silenceabout. ~ ~But enough about the
1855 1| cheese cannot get down, sincethe pores of the strainers will
1856 1| nations. As they rub, they sing songs, to a certain measure,
1857 1| of her,and is constantly singing her praises and calling
1858 2| statement, fell from the singing-girl and resembled the pellicle
1859 1| nourishment, however, is not one singlepart, but a great many parts,
1860 2| Erasistratus - the man who sings the artistic skill of Nature!
1861 2| described by Hippocrates in the sixth-day birth, which, according
1862 1| ten-thousandth part of the sizeof the very smallest particles
1863 1| hardened disputer and as skilful a master of language as
1864 1| isforeign. Further, she skilfully moulds everything during
1865 2| who assumes Nature to be a skilled artist; thus we shall also
1866 3| transferred from the extreme skin-surface and so reach the intestines
1867 3| proportions - in these, any slight tendency to movement forwards
1868 3| deglutition the gullet becomes slightly filled with air which is
1869 1| pabulum runs off and easily slips away from the solid parts
1870 1| yet so unintelligent and slow-witted that evenby the time they
1871 2| Erasistratus is thoroughly small-minded and petty to the last degree
1872 1| can be suspended by such smallbodies? If each of them is a ten-thousandth
1873 1| becomes entangled with another smallbody, or when a body in motion
1874 1| much labour) is the very smallestpart; almost the whole of it
1875 2| natural functions to the smallness or largeness of canals,
1876 3| mere fact that the food smells of the body shows that it
1877 3| the arteries rough and smooth, the heart, the mouth, and
1878 1| heaviness,density, rarity, smoothness, roughness, thickness and
1879 3| mouth, the stomach obviously snatches away the food from them
1880 3| food in our hands and were snatching it from one another; if
1881 3| masticated food is all, firstly, soaked in and mixed up with this
1882 1| forethoughtfor offspring, and one of sociability and friendship for kindred.
1883 1| children, but of any one soever;it is a property of Nature
1884 1| also, a thing which is very soft cannot all at oncebecome
1885 3| before it has been thoroughly softened in the mouth, whilst in
1886 3| that is to say, of the softening of the food, the removal
1887 1| distinctionsare hardness and softness, viscosity, friability,
1888 1| greater power thanextreme solar heat of drawing to itself
1889 3| that Nature is artistic and solicitous for the animal's welfare,
1890 1| there would still remain,solitary and abandoned, the specious
1891 1| the body, and produce a solution having such and such anappearance,
1892 1| wagons, and wish to filch someaway without being detected,
1893 | somehow
1894 1| occurs in reality. Thus someof them hold that all such
1895 1| As they rub, they sing songs, to a certain measure,time,
1896 1| construction of impudent sophisms, the one party strivingto
1897 2| neither the bubo nor the sore of itself impedes in any
1898 2| within itself a cavity of sorts, this is not occupied with
1899 1| flowing from the iron, and sothey become easily interlocked
1900 1| had confirmed its truth,I sought long among the various sects
1901 1| not merelydevoid of all sound knowledge, but they will
1902 1| fact that they always get soundly laughedat by all who happen
1903 3| upon emulsification, then soups, milk, and barley-emulsion
1904 3| nothing from extraneous sources, but if ever it is in need
1905 1| the Saviour!), let us now speakof the worst doctrine of all,
1906 1| rendered what it is by a specialalterative faculty of Nature; while
1907 2| Moreover, that digestion is a species of alteration - a transmutation
1908 1| solitary and abandoned, the specious theory concerning the fillingof
1909 2| these; they are outside the sphere of the practitioner, and
1910 1| an even grander and more spirited venture; for he says this
1911 2| drinkable kind - readily spoils and rots it? And who does
1912 1| looks upon the bladder as a sponge or a piece of wool, and
1913 1| demonstrate how the urine spurts out ofit, like blood in
1914 1| these whenthe bladder was squeezed, in the same way that it
1915 1| thenties up its neck and squeezes it all round, it does not
1916 2| anadosis depends on the squeezing action of the stomach, and
1917 1| moulds everything during the stageof genesis; and she also provides
1918 1| white, all the intermediate stagesare needed. So also, a thing
1919 2| induration of the liver, is the standpoint of a man whose intelligence
1920 1| and will never come to a standstill. But, if this be assumed,
1921 2| physicians and philosophers who start from this hypothesis. For,
1922 1| Epicurus; for the latter always statedthe observed fact, although
1923 1| shamelessly had recourse to the statementthat nothing is in any way attracted
1924 1| which was asked; they merely statewhat happens and imagine they
1925 2| Phidias and all the other statuaries used merely to decorate
1926 2| commencement, and becomes a perfect statue simply by being clothed
1927 1| then, caught in the act of stealing, these two are quitebewildered,
1928 2| alone to be as tough as steel and unaffected by circumstances?
1929 1| different kinds of outgrowths. Stillmore, remember how, in order
1930 1| once detected, and there stillremains the original difficulty
1931 1| compel one to spend one'stime in dissipating the fallacious
1932 1| viper, others that of the sting-ray, and othersthat of some
1933 3| will to a plentiful common stock of food; some will naturally
1934 1| was followed later by the Stoic school.These latter, of
1935 2| Aristotle, thirdly from the Stoics (with a single modification,
1936 2| rises to the top [of the stomach-contents]; and they call black bile
1937 2| elaboration of food in the stomach-region, or whether it reaches the
1938 1| does the attraction of the stomachnot appear? For is it not indicative
1939 3| amongst it abundance of stones, bones, grape-pips, or other
1940 1| kidneys and bladder as the stonetraversed the ureter, or that, when
1941 3| eating when others have stopped, some will be on the point
1942 3| will be on the point of stopping when others are beginning,
1943 3| food and has absorbed and stored away the most useful part
1944 3| I have already shown, it stores up in itself, afterwards
1945 3| finely divided condition, storing this up in its own coats,
1946 2| Erasistratus, and made up some story of a connection between
1947 3| into the intestines, it straightway becomes ordure? For, if
1948 3| may he cease to urge and strain himself in order to learn
1949 2| Nature out of three different strands. By means of this hypothesis
1950 2| the Peripatetics to have strayed very far from truth, since
1951 2| philosophers who lay most stress on a preliminary investigation
1952 3| hands, so also the stomach stretches itself forward along with
1953 3| can no longer support the stretching, weight when the contents
1954 3| used in its primitive or strict sense. ~ But, as has been
1955 3| nutrition, and should therefore strive to put it away. Finally,
1956 3| to be stretched that it strives to relieve itself of its
1957 3| means that the stomach is striving to be evacuated by vomiting.
1958 1| sophisms, the one party strivingto prevent the lies of Asclepiades
1959 1| animal, I think he will stronglycondemn the rashness of Asclepiades,
1960 2| simple, and entirely unified structure, and let us consider how
1961 3| occurs in wresting-bouts and struggles, when in our eagerness to
1962 2| neglect one of the finest studies in medicine? Thus he ought
1963 2| about the spleen, nor have stultified himself by holding that
1964 1| Hippocrates; and he attempts in stupid - I might say insane - language,
1965 1| refuted, and theother saying stupidly what Erasistratus had the
1966 1| despite their ignorance, they style themselves, some "physicians"
1967 1| unchangeable,unalterable, and subdivided into fine particles, which
1968 2| a single uniform matter, subjected to the artificer. From this
1969 1| animal (those which have been subjectedto the moulding or shaping
1970 1| but also from the various subjectsof natural research themselves -
1971 2| to say that, if these be submerged in water, and are emptied
1972 1| Warm and the Cold, and who subordinate to these,as passive, the
1973 3| without there being any subsequent symptoms. Now surely if
1974 1| confute these people, my subsidiarytask would be greater than my
1975 1| that Asclepiades, when all subtle excuses had failed him and
1976 2| nourishment. ~ But this, again, is succeeded by another similar difficulty.
1977 2| how are you going to be successful in treatment, if you do
1978 3| together, and others in succession. Yes, by Zeus! and one will
1979 1| completely assimilates it; while suchpart of the juice as has not
1980 3| full of water and sand, and suck the air out of the tube
1981 2| as it were, just made a sudden entrance into the world,
1982 1| beenpassed by one of these sufferers, or observed that this was
1983 1| just." Alone,he says, she suffices for the animal in every
1984 1| collected till they reach a sufficientquantity, and are then discharged. ~ ~
1985 1| the animal will be at once suffocated. But if it be saidthat the
1986 1| evacuated. Nor, could he suggest any other plausiblecause,
1987 2| Old people, however, it suits well enough, inasmuch as
1988 2| complete? ~ Let us, then, sum up again this same argument,
1989 1| therefore, given a concise and summary statement of the matter,
1990 1| same vessel in the very hot sun, you will find the dailyloss
1991 2| membrane like a kind of superficial condensation; this is what
1992 3| and if the one be much superior in strength, it will exert
1993 1| Thus, the upper part of the superiorextremity must hang from the lodestone,
1994 1| down than the ureters, we supposedthat, if we had not done so before,
1995 1| atmosphere, how big must we supposethe hook-like extremities by
1996 2| haemorrhoids which have been suppressed, or which, through immoderate
1997 2| increasing from internal suppuration, it destroys the body and
1998 2| if we suppose this, I am sure it would be ridiculous for
1999 1| unaware of a still more surprisingfact, namely, that not merely
2000 3| coats, or the way it is surrounded by neighbouring viscera,
2001 2| which the semen firstly surrounds itself with a thin membrane
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