By comparing the chapters of physician's treatises dealing with melancholia (Aeretaeus, Rufus of Ephesus, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles, more particularly Galen) and phrenitis (Hippocrates Diseases I 30, perhaps II 72) with the second and third acts of Menander's Aspis some striking coincidences may be pointed out. As a foreword or footnote to this study, issues concerning black bile such as its nature and its cause are considered -medical theorizing (humoral theory) or popular medical concepts (descriptions of melancholic characters existed before black bile was discovery, and maybe the Attic word μελαγχολάω is previous to μελαγχολία). Conclusions follow concerning an approach to ancient literatures and the history of civilisation....
From the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melancholy on religious lif...
In the first chapter of this thesis, starting from modern scholarship on melancholy, I attempt to co...
Deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus have long been synonymous with poisoning. From a ...
By comparing the chapters of physician's treatises dealing with melancholia (Aeretaeus, Rufus of Eph...
SUMMARY. — This is a side issue in Aristotle's work. The Hippocratic and Aristotelian notions are in...
Galen’s theory of black bile is strongly influenced by his aim to bring together a wide range of mat...
The terms melancholia and mania have their etymologies in classical Greek. Melancholia is derived fr...
The Codex of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy of the University of Athens, Part. I. This work concern...
The aim of these paper is a new study of the relations between two latin texts (Vindicianus, Letter ...
International audienceFrom the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melan...
It has been thought since the early days of medical practice that the liver and gastro-intestinal tr...
Aristotle famously asked the question: why are extraordinary people so often melancholics? “Problem ...
La maladie sauvage dans la Collection Hippocratique et la tragédie grecque (pp. 343-360) De l'étude...
Human being has always been suffering from diseases. Before the beginning of Ṭibb (medicine) (300B...
An Extract from a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 27th January, 1961."...
From the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melancholy on religious lif...
In the first chapter of this thesis, starting from modern scholarship on melancholy, I attempt to co...
Deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus have long been synonymous with poisoning. From a ...
By comparing the chapters of physician's treatises dealing with melancholia (Aeretaeus, Rufus of Eph...
SUMMARY. — This is a side issue in Aristotle's work. The Hippocratic and Aristotelian notions are in...
Galen’s theory of black bile is strongly influenced by his aim to bring together a wide range of mat...
The terms melancholia and mania have their etymologies in classical Greek. Melancholia is derived fr...
The Codex of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy of the University of Athens, Part. I. This work concern...
The aim of these paper is a new study of the relations between two latin texts (Vindicianus, Letter ...
International audienceFrom the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melan...
It has been thought since the early days of medical practice that the liver and gastro-intestinal tr...
Aristotle famously asked the question: why are extraordinary people so often melancholics? “Problem ...
La maladie sauvage dans la Collection Hippocratique et la tragédie grecque (pp. 343-360) De l'étude...
Human being has always been suffering from diseases. Before the beginning of Ṭibb (medicine) (300B...
An Extract from a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 27th January, 1961."...
From the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melancholy on religious lif...
In the first chapter of this thesis, starting from modern scholarship on melancholy, I attempt to co...
Deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus have long been synonymous with poisoning. From a ...