文档介绍：GREEK RATIONAL MEDICINE
Ratione vero opus est ipsi medicinae
(Celsus, De medicina, Proem, 48)
GREEK RATIONAL
MEDICINE
Philosophy and medicine
from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians
James Longrigg
London and New York
First published 1993
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 1993 James Longrigg
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Longrigg, James
Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from
Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians
I. Title
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Longrigg, James
Greek rational medicine: philosophy and medicine from
Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians/James Longrigg.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Medicine, Greek and Roman. I. Title.
1993
610´.938–dc20 92–28865
ISBN 0-203-03344-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-20793-9 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-02594-X (Print Edition)
For Thomas and Elizabeth
Contents
Preface viii
Introduction 1
1 Pre-rational and irrational medicine in Greece and
neighbouring cultures 6
2 Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of
rational medicine 26
3 Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I:
Alcmaeon and the pre-Socratic philosophers 47
4 Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II:
Pre-Socratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus 82
5 Post-Hippo