Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy /
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This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of Euripidean plots and arguments. The work will be of interest to those pursuing studies in Greek drama, Greek intellectual history and Greek medicine.
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1 online resource (x, 229 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and indexes. :
9789047405955 :
0925-1421 ; :
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Galen's theory of black bile : Hippocratic tradition, manipulation, innovation /
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In Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen's writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmful or beneficial to the body. Keith Stewart analyses the most important treatises for Galen's physical description and characteristion of black bile and challenges certain views on the development of this humour, such as the importance of the content of the Hippocratic On the Nature of Man . This analysis allows us to understand how and why Galen defines and uses black bile in different ways for his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004382794 :
0925-1421 ;