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Galen as (Mis)informant about the Views of his Predecessors: A Discussion of R. J. Hankinson (ed.), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge, 1998) [Book Review]

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 83 (1):81-89 (2001)

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Athenaeus of Attaleia on the Elements of Medicine.David Leith - 2024 - Apeiron 57 (2):165-193.details Athenaeus of Attaleia (fl. mid-first century BC) offers a fascinating example of the interest among Graeco-Roman physicians in marking out the boundaries between medicine and philosophy. As founder of the so-called Pneumatist medical sect, he was deeply influenced by contemporary Stoicism. A number of surviving ancient testimonia tell us that he held a distinctive view on the question of how far medicine should analyse the composition of the human body. Rather than having recourse to the Stoic cosmic elements fire, air, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Elements and Uniform Parts in Early Alexandrian Medicine.David Leith - 2015 - Phronesis 60 (4):462-491.details This paper argues that the Alexandrian physicians Erasistratus of Iulis and Herophilus of Chalcedon adopted an Aristotelian analysis of the composition of organic bodies into three levels, namely elements, uniform and non-uniform parts. They asserted that it was not the task of the doctor to analyse the body at the level of elements, that the uniform parts, being perceptible, should be taken to be most basic in the context of medicine and that the inquiry into the elements be left to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Causing doubts: Diodorus Cronus and herophilus of chalcedon on causality.David Leith - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (2):592-608.details The physician Herophilus of Chalcedon, who lived and worked in Alexandria in the early third centuryb.c., is best known and justly celebrated for his numerous and ground-breaking anatomical discoveries and advances in such areas as pulse theory. His systematic investigations into the human body led to some of the highest achievements of Hellenistic science, among which the best known is probably his discovery and detailed description of the nervous system and its functions. Yet certain aspects of his thought have seemed (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Pores and Void in Asclepiades' Physical Theory.David Leith - 2012 - Phronesis 57 (2):164-191.details Abstract This paper examines a fundamental, though relatively understudied, aspect of the physical theory of the physician Asclepiades of Bithynia, namely his doctrine of pores. My principal thesis is that this doctrine is dependent on a conception of void taken directly from Epicurean physics. The paper falls into two parts: the first half addresses the evidence for the presence of void in Asclepiades' theory, and concludes that his conception of void was basically that of Epicurus; the second half focuses on (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations

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