Alteration (qualitative change), 7, 9, 241, 251 Anadosis (absorption from digestive tract), 63, 119 Anæmia, 173 Anasarca (dropsy), 41 Anastomoses (communications between arteries and veins), 321 Anaxagoras, "preformationist" doctrine of, 7 Ancient writers, value of, 279 Animal life, 3 Animals (_v._ also _History, Natural_) cold-blooded, 181 long-necked, 275 Anorexia (want of appetite), 247 Aorta (main artery of body), 143, 323 Appetite, 249 Aristotle, 9, _et passim_ (_v._ also _Peripatetic School_) Arrows, drugs for extracting heads of, 83 "Art" of Nature (_i.e._ of the living organism), 57 Arteries, structure of, 283 to-and-fro motion in, 313 attraction of air by, through skin, 317 Artery, pulmonary, 121, 323 Artificer, 133 Asclepiades, 49, _et passim_ Asepsis (absence of corruption), 201 Assimilation, 33 Asthenia (weakness), 239 Atomist School in Medicine, 45 Atrabiliary (melancholic) humour, 209 Attraction (_v._ also _Horror vacui_) physiological, 45 magnetic, 73 Auricle, left, of heart, 315 right, of heart, 321 Authority, value of, 279 Aversion, 249 Baking, 259 Beauty, 47 Bile, yellow, 63, 123, 177, 191, 289 "vitelline," 209 black, 203 (_v._ also _Melancholic humour_) Bile-passages, mechanical blocking of, 171 Biliousness, 193 Biology, repudiation of, by Atomist School, 45 Bladder, urinary, 51, 53, _et passim_ for bile (_v. Gall-bladder_) Blood-production, 17, 169, 183, 191, 201 Boiling, 259 Boils, 253 Bone, structure of, 327 Bone-marrow, 327 Borborygmi (gurglings) in stomach, 237 Bread, constitution of, 11 Bubo (swollen lymphatic glands in groin), 185 Butchers (as the primitive anatomists), 51 Cadaver (corpse), experiment on, 265 Cartilage (gristle), 329 Catarrh (mucous discharge), 215 Cattle (as typifying "herd-morality"), 47 "Cell," of animal tissues, 153 nutrition of, 327 Change, qualitative (_v. Alteration_) Channels (_v. Morphological hypothesis_) Cheese-making, 91 Childbirth, 231, 285 Children's game, 27 Chill, 171, 203 (_v._ also _Cold_) Cholagogues (drugs that draw off bile), 65 Cholera, 299 Chorion (membrane enclosing unborn child), 229 Chrysippus, 9 Chyle (emulsified contents of stomach), (_v. Emulsification_) Cirrhosis (induration) of liver, 171 Coats (tunics), 23 Cold, action of, on skin, 301 Cold-in-the-head, 215 (_v._ also _Chill_) Colon (large intestine), 313 Colour, 5 Conception, of semen, 233 Congius (measure), 111 Contractions (_v. Peristalsis_) Cooking, 191 Corn, attractive power of, 87 Coryza (mucous discharge: now a "cold"), 215 Crisis, 75 Cyathus (measure), 65 Decay, 7 Deductive reasoning, 227 Deglutition (swallowing), 95, 261, 265, 273 Democritus, 153 Deposits (in tissues), 297 Desire (appetite), 249, 269