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The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function of the body and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Contributors demonstrate how different academic disciplines can contribute to our understanding of 'physiology', and investigate the value of this category to pre-modern medicine.
The book contains individual essays on the wider issues raised by 'physiology', and detailed case studies that explore particular aspects and individuals. It will be useful to those working on medicine and the body in pre-modern cultures, in disciplines including classics, history of medicine and science, philosophy, and literature.
Contributors include Barbara Baert, Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Véronique Boudon-Millot, Rainer Brömer, Elizabeth Craik, Tamás Demeter, Valeria Gavrylenko, Hans L. Haak, Mieneke te Hennepe, Sabine Kalff, Rina Knoeff, Sergius Kodera, Liesbet Kusters, Karine van 't Land, Tomas Macsotay, Michael McVaugh, Vivian Nutton, Barbara Orland, Jacomien Prins, Julius Rocca, Catrien Santing, Daniel Schäfer, Emma Sidgwick, Frank W. Stahnisch, Diana Stanciu, Michael Stolberg, Liba Taub, Fabio Tutrone, Katrien Vanagt, and Marion A. Wells.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Helen King
PART ONE
HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY IN CONTEXT:
CONCEPTS, METAPHORS, ANALOGIES
Physiologia from Galen to Jacob Bording
Vivian Nutton
Physiological Analogies and Metaphors. In Explanations of the Earth and the
Cosmos
Liba Taub
The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands
Elizabeth Craik
Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of
Integrated and Bifocal Physiology
Fabio Tutrone
Losing Ground. The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys 85
Michael R. McVaugh
The Art of the Distillation of 'Spirits' as a Technological Model for Human
Physiology. The Cases of Marsilio Ficino, Joseph Duchesne and Francis Bacon
Sergius Kodera
The Body is a Battlefield. Conflict and Control in Seventeenth-Century
Physiology and Political Thought
Sabine Kalff
Herman Boerhaave's Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology
Rina Knoeff
The Anatomy and Physiology of Mind. David Hume's Vitalistic Account
Tamás Demeter
More than a Fading Flame. The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative
Analogy and Experimental Method
Daniel Schäfer
Suffering Bodies, Sensible Artists. Vitalist Medicine and the Visualising of
Corporeal Life in Diderot
Tomas Macsotay
PART TWO
BLOOD
Blood, Clotting and the Four Humours
Hans L. Haak
An Issue of Blood. The Healing of the Woman with the Haemorrhage
(Mark 5.24b-34; Luke 8.42b-48; Matthew 9.19-22) in Early Medieval
Visual Culture
Barbara Baert, Liesbet Kusters and Emma Sidgwick
The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs.
Galen, Ibn al-Nafīs, Servetus, İtaki, 'Aṭṭār
Rainer Brömer
Sperm and Blood, Form and Food. Late Medieval Medical Notions of Male
and Female in the Embryology of Membra
Karine van 't Land
The Music of the Pulse in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus Commentary
Jacomien Prins
'For the Life of a Creature is in the Blood' (Leviticus 17:11). Some
Considerations on Blood as the Source of Life in Sixteenth-Century
Religion and Medicine and their Interconnections
Catrien Santing
White Blood and Red Milk. Analogical Reasoning in Medical Practice
and Experimental Physiology (1560-1730)
Barbara Orland
PART THREE
SWEAT AND SKIN
The "Body without Skin" in the Homeric Poems
Valeria Gavrylenko
Sweat. Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions, 1500-1800
Michael Stolberg
Of the Fisherman's Net and Skin Pores. Reframing Conceptions of the Skin
in Medicine 1572-1714
Mieneke M. G. te Hennepe
PART FOUR
TEARS AND SIGHT
Vision and Vision Disorders. Galen's Physiology of Sight
Véronique Boudon-Millot
Early Modern Medical Thinking on Vision and the Camera Obscura.
V.F. Plempius' Ophthalmographia
Katrien Vanagt
The Tertium Comparationis of the Elementa Physiologiae. Johann Gottfried
von Herder's Coception of "Tears' as Mediators between the Sublime
and the Actual Bodily Physiology
Frank W. Stahnisch
PART FIVE
BODY AND SOUL
From Doubt to Certainty. Aspects of the Conceptualisation and Interpretation
of Galen's Natural Pneuma
Julius Rocca
Metabolisms of the Soul. The Physiology of Bernardino Telesio in Oliva
Sabuco's Nueva Filosofía de la Naturaleza del Hombre (1587)
Marlen Bidwell-Steiner
"Full of Rapture". Maternal Vocality and Melancholy in Webster's Duchess
of Malfi
Marion A. Wells
The Sleeping Musician. Aristotle's Vegetative Soul and Ralph
Cudworth's Plastic Nature
Diana Stanciu
Index Locorum
Index Generalis
