Larynx (voice-box), involved in swallowing, 265 Leprosy, 41 Leucippus, 153 Lichen (a skin-disease), 253 Liver, proper tissue of, 311 transverse fissure of, 147 induration of, 171 give-and-take between it and stomach, 291 Lodestone, 71 Love, 47 Lumen (internal cavity of a vessel), 119 Lycus, 109 Magnetism, 71 Marrow of bones, 327 Mastication, 253 Material forces, 127 Medicine, taking of, 269 (_v._ also _Drugs_) Melancholic (_v. Atrabiliary_) Membranes, foetal, 231, 285 (_v._ also _Chorion_) Menander, 105 Menodotus, 81 Menstrual blood, 131, 171 Metabolism, diseases of, 41 Midwife, 235 Miscarriage, (_v. Abortion_) Molecules (of Asclepiades), 63 Morphological hypothesis of bile-secretion, 125, 147 Motion, active and passive, 57 Mouth, lining of, 261 digestion in, 253 Mucus, 203, 215 Muscles, voluntary, 263 "Nature," 2; its "Art," 57 Nature-lore (_v. Physiology_) Nausea, 287 "Nerve," 151, 273 Nutriment, 41 Nutrition, 31, 149 Obstetric chair, 235 Obstruction of bowels, 299, 303 Oesophagus (_v. Gullet_) Omentum (an apron-like fold of fat, overlying the intestine), 143, 255, 313 Organism, unity of, 61 Organs, nutrition of, 307 Os uteri (mouth of womb), 229 Ovum, human, 135 Oxidation, 211 Oxygen (_v. Pneuma_) Pain, 287 Parturition, 231 Pathology, relation to Physiology, 189, 287 Peasants, 87 Perch (_v. Fish_) Peripatetic (Aristotelian) School, 139 Peristalsis (contraction and dilatation), 97, 243, 263 Peritoneum, 53 Phidias, 129 Philistion, 173 Philotimus, 183 Phlegm, 67, 201, 215 Phlegmatic temperament, 193 "Physiology," 139 Piles, 171 Plant-life, 3 Plato, 173, 203, 215 Plethora (congestion), 119 Pneuma (as a vital principle), 153; (as oxygen), 187 Poisons, action of, 251 Porch, the (Stoic School), 145 "Pores" (_v. Channels_) Portal vein, 147 Potter's earth, 213 Practitioner, 197 Praxagoras, 51 Praxiteles, 129 "Preformationist" doctrine of Anaxagoras, p. 7, Note 5 (14) Presentation (prosthesis) of nutriment to tissues, 39 Prevention and Cure, 169 Principles, the four fundamental (_v. Qualities_) Prodicus, 201 Prolapse of uterus, 235 Propulsive faculty, 231 Prosphysis (_v. Adhesion_) Prosthesis (_v. Presentation_) Psyche, 3, 153 Psychology, repudiation of, by Atomist School, 45 Pulmonary artery, 121 Pylorus (outlet of stomach), 239 regurgitation through, 289 Pyrrhonists (typical sceptics), 197 Qualities, the four fundamental, 9, 183, 259 derivative, 21 Relativity, 17 Renal veins, 107 Respiration, 175, 305 Retentive faculty, 225 Rhetoric, 97 Safflower (drug), 67 Saliva, action of, 253 Scammony (drug), 67 Schools, two contrasted, in Medicine, 45 Scientist, 197 Scorpions, 253 Sculpture, 129
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