Essay Review: Greek Medicine Dissected: Greek Medicine,the Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine: From Alcmaeon to Galen

Cf. also the fuller exposition by Harig G. Kollesch J. , “Gesellschaftliche Aspekte der antiken Diätetik”, NTM-Schriftenreihe, Geschichte, Technik, Medizin (Leipzig), viii (1971), 14–23.

Diller H. , “Hippokratische Medizin und attische Philosophie”, Hermes, lxxx (1952), 385–409.

Abel K. H. , “Die Lehre vom Blutkreislauf im Corpus Hippocraticum”, Hermes, lxxxvi (1958), 192–219; reprinted with a recantation in Flashar H. , Antike Medizin (Darmstadt, 1971), 121–164: Kudlien F. , “Poseidonios und die Ärzteschule der Pneumatiker”, Hermes, xc (1962), 427. The most recent discussion of this treatise, that of Lonie I. M. , “The paradoxical treatise ‘On the Heart’”, Medical history, xvii (1973), 1–15, 136–153, argues for a date in the first half of the third century b.c.

Kudlien F. , “Antike Anatomie und menschlicher Leichnam”, Hermes, xcvii (1969), 78–94; Fraser P. M. , “The career of Erasistratus of Ceos”, Rendiconti dell' Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere, ciii (1969), 518–537.

It was first edited by Schöne H. , Festschrift zur 49 Versammlung Deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner (Basle, 1907), 448–471; and, attributed to Marcellus of Side, by Zervos S. , Mitteilungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, viii (1909), 468–470. The two were first identified by von Wilamowitz U. , “Markellos von Side”, Kleine Schriften, ii (Berlin, 1971), 199. Harris's reference to Schöne's edition (p. 257) is incomplete.

Heinimann F. , “Diokles von Karystos und der prophylaktische Brief an König Antigones”, Museum Helveticum, xii (1955), 158–172.

Jaeger W. , Diokles von Karystos. Die griechische Medizin und die Schule des Aristoteles (Berlin, 1938).

Edelstein L. , Ancient medicine (Baltimore, 1967), 145–152; Kudlien F. , “Probleme um Diokles von Karystos”, Sudhoffs Archiv, xlvii (1963), 456–464.

The problem is well summarised by Benedum J. Michler M. , “Parmenides Uliades und die Medizinschule von Elea”, Clio medica, vi (1971), 295–306.

On p. 169, Archigenes and Archigenes of Apamaea are the same. The bibliography, pp. 230–232, carries no reference to the editions of Aretaeus, Soranus and Rufus in the Corpus medicorum graecorum.

A much better short summary is given by Lloyd G. E. R. , Later Greek science (London, 1973), 136–153.

They are collected and discussed by Grosso F. , La lotta politica al tempo di Commodo (Turin, 1964), 121.

I note the following misprints: 17, n. 3, Furley D. J. ; 114, n. 2 (7 lines up), read for 185, n. 5, the title should be De animi erroribus; 236, n. 1, Rohde; 320, n. 1, 444; 351, 1.1, furnished; 354, note 2 (2) should be changed to 3 in the text and note 3 omitted; 356, n. 1 (last line), ; 434, in the text note 1 should follow “Soranus”, and note 2 “heart” (line 22).

The following minor errors should be corrected: 32, the reference to Kudlien is not given until p. 97, n.1.; 183, nn.2 and 3, Galen's Commentary on De humoribus is a Renaissance compilation; 184, the treatise De animi erroribus is genuine and thus does not warrant a query, unlike 205, n. 4, for the Introductio is now regarded as falsely ascribed, although it is a contemporary work, probably by a Pneumatist; 210, n. 1, the text of Anonymus Londinensis—it is pedantry to talk of Anonymous Londoner or Parisian—has , the missing letter undoubtedly being iota; the square brackets in Harris's note represent a deletion of the words “as with wine” as a gloss, while those in line 9 indicate a supplement by the first editor; 434, the wrong date is given for the life of Aretaeus, but rightly at p. 235; 446, refers to tissues, not to affections; 474, delete the reference to On prognosis. On pp. 384–5 the same experiment of Vieussens is described twice.