Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe

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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 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 Tamas Demeter More than a Fading Flame. The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative Analogy and Experimental Method Daniel Schafer 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-Nafis, Servetus, Itaki, 'Attar Rainer Bromer 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 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 Veronique 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 Filosofia 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