Biology -- Greece -- History; Medicine, Greek and Roman
3. Paintings of fish on plates: Italo-Greek work of
the fourth century B. C. 8
4. Head and talons of the Sea-eagle,
_Haliaëtus albicilla_: A, from an Ionic
vase of the sixth century B. C.; B,
drawn from the object 9
5. Minoan gold cup, sixteenth century B. C. _facing_ 12
6. Horse’s head, from Parthenon. 440 B. C. ” 12
7. Aristotle. From Herculaneum; probably work of fourth
century B. C. ” 18
7 _a_. The Order of Living Things according to Aristotle 30
7 _b_. The Four Elements and the Four Qualities 39
8. Theophrastus. From Villa Albani;
copy (second century A. D.?) of earlier work _facing_ 60
9, 10. Fifth century drawings from Juliana Anicia MS.,
copied from originals of the first century
B. C. (?): 9, Σογκός τρυφερός = _Crepis paludosa_,
Moen.; 10, Γεράνιον = _Erodium malachoides_, L. ” 64
11. Illustrating Galen’s physiological teaching 67
GREEK MEDICINE
1. Hippocrates. British Museum, second or
third century B. C. _facing_ 90
2. Asclepius. British Museum, fourth century B. C. ” 90
3, 4. From MS. of Apollonius of Kitium, of ninth century
(copied from a pre-Christian original): 3, reducing
dislocated shoulder; 4, reducing dislocated jaw ” 104
5. A Greek clinic of about 400 B. C.: from a vase-painting 106
6. A kylix, from the Berlin Museum, of about 490 B. C. 107
7. Athenian funerary monument. British Museum,
second century A. D. _facing_ 114
8. Votive tablet, representing cupping and bleeding
instruments, from Temple of Asclepius at Athens ” 120
GREEK BIOLOGY
§ 1. _Before Aristotle_
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