HEALTH AND HYGIENE

By C. LARAR

Part One: Classical Greek Medicine in Its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context 1 Chapter One: Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine 2 Chapter Two: Politics and Medicine The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6) 20 Chapter Three: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century 36 Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy 53 Chapter Five: Disease as Aggression in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy: Wild and Devouring Disease 78 Chapter Six: Hippocrates and the Sacred 94 Part Two: Aspects of Hippocratic Medicine and Their Relationship to Greek Philosophical Thought 116 Chapter Seven: Air, Miasma and Contagion in the Time of Hippocrates and the Survival of Miasmas in Post-Hippocratic Medicine (Rufus of Ephesus, Galen and Palladius) 117 Chapter Eight: Dietetics in Hippocratic Medicine: Definition, Main Problems, Discussion 133 Chapter Nine: Water, Health and Disease in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs, Waters, Places 150 Chapter Ten: Wine and Medicine in Ancient Greece 168 Chapter Eleven: The Theory of Sensation, Thought and the Soul in the Hippocratic Treatise Regimen: Its Connections with Empedocles and Plato's Timaeus 189 Chapter Twelve: At the Roots of Melancholy: Is Greek Medicine Melancholic? 222 Part Three: The Reception of Hippocratic Medicine in Galen and in Late Antiquity 252 Chapter Thirteen: Galen's Reading of Hippocratic Ethics 253 Chapter Fourteen: Galen's Concept of Nature 278 Chapter Fifteen: Galen's Reading of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Foundations of Hippocratism in Galen 303 Chapter Sixteen: The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Theory of the Four Humours 324