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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2023

Chiara Thumiger
Chiara Thumiger
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Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
 , pp. 441 - 448
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General Index

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, 242
Abou Ma’shar al-Balkhî, 306
addiction, 339, 364
Ælred of Rievaulx, 288, 295, 301
Aeschylus, 226
Aetius of Amida, 51, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179–180, 182, 388
Agamben, Giorgio, 358
aggressiveness, 85, 92, 159, 191, 202–203, 209–211, 293, 314, 323, 325, 341, 365, 379
Alain of Lille, 308
Albert of Stade, 288
alcoholism, 283, 339, 364
Alexander of Aphrodisias [ps.-], 157, 161, 163, 173, 375, 388
Alexander the Great, 302, 303
Alexander of Hales, 301, 302
Alexander of Tralles, 177, 181, 182, 217, 267, 388
Al-Kashkarī, 238
Alphita, 252, 278
al-Rāzī, 238, 244–246, 388
Ambrose of Milan, 214
anachronism, 1–2, 4, 31, 122, 360–361, 381
anatomo-pathology, 186, 260, 315–316, 317–321, 322, 340, 342, 350, 359, 361
anatomy, 317–318
anger, 16, 69, 84, 85, 92, 144, 173, 178, 183, 190, 202, 215, 232, 246, 255, 256, 272, 291, 296–297, 323, 336, 337, 349, 375
animals, 98, 123, 173, 203, 219–221, 226, 258, 260–261, 277–278, 286, 292, 293–294, 298, 307, 349, 350–354, 375
boars, 294
dogs, 169, 299, 351, 354, 375
horses, 203, 293, 294, 352, 353, 354
lambs, 354
Anonymus Londinensis, 52, 53, 55, 82, 275, 358, 377, 386
Anonymus Parisinus, 4, 51, 53, 54, 55, 94, 130–136, 387
Antonio Beniveni, 389
Antonius Bonfini, 297
aortē, 17, 88
apostēma, 236, 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 262, 269, 271, 275, 276, 277, 284, 285, 286
Aquinas, Thomas, 216, 289, 305, 307
Arabic sources, 235–246, 358
archaism, 17, 41, 50, 259, 382
Aretaeus, 77, 100, 108, 129, 137, 149, 162, 165–166, 173, 267, 387
Aristophanes, 19
Aristotelianism, 355
Aristotle, 13, 17, 43–44, 51, 52, 260
Arnau de Vilanova, 273, 274–276, 388
Asclepiades, 71, 81, 260, 322, 336, 373, 387
ogkoi, 63
pores, 64
poroi, 64
Asterius Sophista, 204, 205
athymia, 60
atonia, 207, 367
Augustine, 198, 204, 205, 206, 210, 211, 213, 216, 217, 287, 357
autopsy (of phrenitic patients), 327–329
Babylonian medicine, 21, 248, 250, 371–372
Basil of Caesarea, 198, 204, 214, 228
Beniveni, Antonio, 317–318
Bernard of Clairvaux, 292
Bernard of Cluny, 296
Bernard de Gordon, 273, 276, 376, 389
bile, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 45, 47, 48, 59, 61, 62, 98, 116, 119, 127, 128, 129, 139, 150, 155, 157, 168, 169, 176, 179, 184, 230, 233, 241, 242, 244, 245, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 263, 265, 266, 272, 276, 292, 320, 341, 370, 386, 388
black, 87, 98, 100, 128, 176, 241, 252, 388, see
black burnt, 263
burnt, 266, 285, 388
ochre, 127, 179, 184, 285, 388
overcooked, 176, 179, 388
pure red, 263, 277, 388
red, 254, 256, 277, 285
red burnt, 258, 277
yellow, 119, 126, 127, 148, 153, 167, 168, 176, 179, 184, 233, 234, 241, 242, 387, 388
yellow, overcooked, 388
birsām/sirsām, 235–243
blood, 23, 28, 31, 35–36, 42, 46, 47, 54, 55, 57, 84, 116, 128, 139, 176–177, 184, 211, 212, 233, 234, 241, 242, 244, 245, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258, 263, 277, 285, 300, 307, 312, 320, 323, 324, 385–389
bilious, 320
blackened, 328
boiling, 275, 276, 277, 285, 294, 335
engorgement, 353
from the nose, 176, 272, 276, 280, 373
fumes, 77, 163, 252, 285, 320
putrefied, 285
in the brain, 341, 346
putrid, 245
body
imaging the, 20
Boerhaave, Herman, 322–327, 389
brain, 42, 54, 55, 88, 99, 100–104, 317–318, 358, 361–363, see encephalocentrism, meninges
and anthropology, 355–359
body of, 240, 241, 242, 259, 262, 276, 284, 321, 328
cerebral death, 358
faculties of, 52, 101, 108, 115, 116, 146, 150, 166, 167, 175, 178, 275, 304, 387
inflammation of, 381, 382, 383, 389
regions of, 143
ventricles, 102, 174, 175, 183, 289
breathing, 36, 115, 157, 158, 241, 243, 249, 349
Byzantine world, 177–183, 222, 224–231, 351, 388
cadaver dissection, 317, 327, 328, 329, 340, 352
Caelius Aurelianus, 8, 62, 185, 322, 372, 388
Caesarius of Arles, 203, 205, 208, 212, 221, 310
Calvin, Jean, 289, 290, 309
cardiac disease, 76, 77, 190, 282
cardiocentrism, 8, 36, 55, 96, 104, 355–359
Carelli, Giuseppe, 354
causation, 2, 30–31, 63–64, 101, 128, 137, 148, 160, 233, 245, 253, 254, 256–257, 269, 277, 316–317, 318, 320–321, 322, 334–335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 349, 364, 385–389
cavity, 22, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 48, 98, 106, 167, 227, 372
gastric, 36
thoracic, 36
Celsus, Caius Cornelius, 8, 51, 71–78, 79, 82, 93, 99, 132–133, 138, 164, 185, 200, 227, 267, 317, 321, 322, 387
change, 142, 144, 200, 258, 304, 349
of behaviour, 183
in complexion, 86
of voice, 162
character, 161, 162–163, 180, 182, 183, 196, 266, 289, 294–299, 302, 303, 310–313, 323, 325, 328, 337, 338, 356, 383
inconsistency of, 161
chest, 7, 14, 22, 30, 33–34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 61, 66, 80–81, 95–97, 98, 104, 107, 108–109, 114–115, 129, 134, 136, 156, 176–177, 227, 229, 230, 236, 240, 243, 248–249, 257, 259, 264, 265, 266, 268, 273, 275, 279, 281, 283, 314, 322, 355, 358, 372
Christian theology, 217, 290, 298, 313, 357
Christianity, 197–216
chronology, 119, 123–124, 161
Cicero, 66, 187, 189, 217
cognition, 96, 141, 251, 275, 359
damage to, 47, 99, 140, 162, 365
Concilia Africae, 223
condescension, 212, 213, 215, 300
Constantinus Africanus, 255
Copho, 255
Cornelius Jansen, 302
coughing, 115–116, 156
crocydism, 27, 50, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 111, 120, 129, 131, 163, 182, 183, 233, 235, 246, 262, 265, 272, 283, 284, 312, 326, 347, 349
Cullen, William, 339
curability, 220, 283, 334
Cyranides, 219
Cyril of Alexandria, 204
daemon(s), 191, 204, 208, 209, 214, 217–218, 266, 268, 283, 284, 297, 306, 314, 389
sibare (daemonic possession), 266–267
dangerousness, 91, 202–203, 292–293, 314
de Vries, Michaëlis Jacobus, 340
debauchery, 308, 311, 350, 364, 366
Decretum magistri Gratiani, 307, 308
delirium, 361, 363–365, 366
delirium tremens, 282, 283
delocalization, 78, 83, 93, 100, 129, 185, 325, 336, 367, 368
Demetrius of Apamea, 54
Democritus, 192
depression, 6, 364, 366
diagnosis
retrospective, 6, 25, 49, 50, 122, 124, 244, 323, 346, 363, 369, 372
diaphragm, 1, 7, 12–14, 17, 18, 20, 29, 32, 33–35, 36, 37–40, 41, 43–45, 46, 50, 52–53, 61, 66, 80, 91, 97, 98, 99, 103–107, 109, 126, 158, 176, 177, 183, 226, 233, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 242, 248, 251, 257, 258, 266, 274, 277, 278, 281, 284–285, 319, 322, 329, 336, 340, 358, 389
sensitivity of, 38, 44
Dio Chrysostom, 208, 215
Diocles, 53–54, 358, 386
Diocles of Carystus, 53, 54
disease
co-factors in, 30
co-morbidity, 47, 53, 87, 95
concept, 4, 8, 21, 120, 185
conceptual fuzziness, 17
entity, 4, 6, 8, 21, 25, 35, 49, 110, 122, 192, 225, 363
etymology, 11, 106, 235, 249, 283, 286, 322, 358, 365, 377, 382
and history, 3–7, 360–361
label, 2, 359, 367–369
life and death of, 4, 360–361
neighbouring, 47, 77, 134, 164, 165
new, 4, 5–6, 377
nomenclature, 380–384
robustness, 2, 47
doctor
Jesus as, 211–212
relationship with patient, 209–211, 212–215, 232, 297–300
reports, 342–347
violence against, 209–211, 297–299
dog
star, 169, 376
dogmatism, 79
doxography, 51, 131, 135
dreams and dreaming, 28, 29, 84, 140, 141, 145, 151, 163, 182, 183, 193, 198, 199, 216, 228, 256, 264, 265, 272, 288, 289, 291, 306, 357
drunkenness, 50, 127, 190, 194, 201, 228, 308–309, 313, 338, 364
dryness, 26, 102, 140, 141, 147, 149, 153–154, 159, 368, 370
DSM, 364, 365
du Laurens, André, 318–319, 389
Ducas, 303
eastern influences, 246–248, 370–373
emotions, 16, 41, 79, 160, 170, 188, 250, 296–297, 337, 339, 341, 356, 359, 382
encephalitis, 338, 361–363, 380–384
encephalocentrism, 8, 36, 55, 89, 96, 142, 145, 268, 355–358
encyclopaedists, medical, 174
Encyclopédie, 335, 364
Epictetus, 207, 366
epigastrion, 20
epilēpsis/ēpilepsia, 8, 42, 81, 102, 109, 167, 169, 187, 197, 219, 248, 304, 351
Epiphanius, 200, 203
Erasistratus, 54, 55, 100, 387
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 304
Esagil-kīn-apli, 371
etymology, 10
Euripides, 16, 373, 375
Evagrius Scholasticus, 201, 302
existential suffering, 62, 196, 200–202, 291, 303, 365–367
expectoration, 32, 33, 34, 111, 114, 115, 116, 326
Falstaff, 311–313, 366
fear, 5, 29, 50, 73, 75, 85, 88, 92, 122, 124, 144, 147, 159, 162, 170, 193, 194, 210, 223, 257, 263, 306, 307, 365, 371
female, patients
pregnant, 40
virgins, 42
wife of Theodorus (Hipp. Epid. 7, 25), 43
fever, 23–24, 86–87, 136–139
Firmicus Maternus, 218
‘folk’ cultures, 8, 170, 186, 217, 220, 224, 292, 305, 313, 333, 334, 365, 376
forgetfulness, 265
Fronto, Marcus Cornelius, 190
Galen, 100–173, 355
Gee, Samuel, 344–347
General Adaptation Syndrome, 365
Gentile da Foligno, 270, 271, 375, 388
Geoffroy of Auxerre, 303
Gerson, Jean, 289, 294, 297, 299, 309
Gesta Romanorum, 304
Gilbertus Anglicus, 258, 388
gonorrhea, 4
Gregory of Nyssa, 200, 202, 207, 211, 227, 290
grief, 295, 302, 303, 309, 311–312, 322, 323, 324
Guibert of Tournai, 292, 297
hagiography, 188, 302, 313
hallucination, 29, 145–147, 163–164, 190–191, 197–199
head/caput, 35, 56, 65, 70, 91, 132, 164, 229, 253, 258, 265, 269, 355
headache, 22, 35, 42, 109, 164, 172, 241, 320, 332, 342, 343, 345, 362, 363, 368
heart, 17, 20, 100, 247, 355–359, 368, 389
Hellenism, 315, 329, 340
Hellenistic medicine, 96, 249
Henry of Lancaster, 300
Heraclides, 55
Heraclitus, 44
heresy, 199, 200, 290
Herophilus, 54, 100, 157, 386
Hildegard of Bingen, 288, 307
Hippocratic medicine, 21–50, 77–78
histology, 259, 271, 273, 284, 285, 321, 337, 344, 360
holism, 70, 89, 93, 114, 135, 185, 200, 228, 251, 285, 317, 333, 334, 336, 387
Homer, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 37, 226, 357, 382
Hooper, John, 340–342
horses, 351
Howard, Robert, 342
Hugues de Miramar, 230
Humbert of Romans, 308
humours, 31, 56, 96, 98, 102, 109, 119, 123, 126, 127, 137, 144, 148, 150, 152, 159, 163, 167, 233, 234, 239, 252, 255, 260, 261, 267, 269, 270, 272, 275, 285, 320, 321, 386
hump
as sign in phrenitis, 33
Ḥunayn, 63, 169, 236, 237, 238, 242, 256, 388
Hus, Jan, 293
hydrophobia, 5
hypersensitive, 159, 166, 209
hypersensitivity, 140
hypochondrion, 14, 34, 36, 64, 98, 100, 132, 135, 139, 151, 165
Ibn al-Nafīs, 242
Ibn al-Quff, 242
Ibn-Rushd, 268
Ibn Serapion, 243
Ibn Sīnā, 238, 240, 241, 246, 261, 388
Ibn Zuhr, 268, 388
impairment (as consequence of phrenitis), 347
incapacitation, 190, 196, 307, 308, 313
infectiousness, 25, 347–350
insomnia, 26, 27, 102, 103, 108, 118, 119, 124, 131, 139, 149, 150, 153, 162, 166, 167, 194, 234, 242, 243, 245, 267, 321, 347
involuntary treatment, 188, 215, 301
Irenaeus, 205
Jesus, 210, 211–212, 213, 298, 300, 305, 314
Jewish sources, 109, 175, 224, 225, 243, 255, 262, 279, 280
Jews
as paradigmatic ‘phrenitics’, 208, 210, 212, 298, 314
Joannes Actuarius, 233, 234
Joannes Camaterus, 306
Joannes Tzetzes, 291
Joannes Zonaras, 303
John Chrysostom, 197, 199, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 209, 215, 216, 295
John of Damascus, 298, 300
John VI Kantakouzenos, 229
judgement, 67, 144, 145, 146, 161, 163, 193, 291, 292, 320, 327, 381
lack of, 142, 199–200, 205, 245, 262, 272, 288
Julian of Toledo, 296
karabitus, 235, 237, 238, 239, 244, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270, 271, 274, 284, 375
kardia, 16, 42
Lancet, The, 342
laughter, 43–44, 50, 75, 88, 205–206, 295–296
Lawrence of Brindisi, 289, 297, 301
leg, 325, 329–332
Leo the Mathematician, 229
Leo Medicus, 233
lethargy, 77, 166, 230, 240, 244, 261, 272, 273, 279, 311, 312, 347
change to, 75
polarity with phrenitis, 62, 169, 239, 255, 274, 276, 281
liver, 34–35, 38, 39–40, 41, 43, 45, 96, 100, 107, 173, 247, 249, 255, 257, 260, 321, 328, 350, 358, 382
localization, 7, 8, 12–14, 33–36, 58, 66, 76, 83, 88–89, 95, 97, 101, 126, 128, 129, 131, 135, 142, 173, 175, 176–177, 183, 227, 238, 240, 250, 276, 277, 279, 285, 323, 329, 355, 360
locus affectus, 22, 34, 46, 52, 57, 65, 66, 82, 93, 101, 128, 138, 171, 179, 227, 229, 235, 241, 254, 284, 319, 328, 358
Lucian, 195, 202, 323, 326, 373, 374
lung
animal ingredient, 254, 260, 277
lung(s), 46, 77, 98, 99, 109, 135–136, 163, 176, 194, 248, 259, 268, 277, 322, 328, 329, 349, 358, 363, 387, 389
lyric poetry, 7
Maimonides, 279–281, 389
malaria, 3, 7, 25, 193, 370
male, gendering of phrenitic behaviours, 188
Manardo, Giovanni, 316
Marius (Gaius Marius), 188, 193, 194, 303
Martial, 191
Marwan ibn Ǧanah (Rabbi Jonah), 278, 279, 286
medical dictionaries, 380–384
Medical Times, The, 343
membrane(s), 267, 269, 271, 274, 275, 285, 389
memory, 112, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 175, 203, 250, 261, 262, 265, 280, 309, 359, 365, 374
Menander, Aspis, 58–62, 195
meninges, 389
meningitis, 1, 3, 7, 244, 260, 277, 332, 344, 345, 346, 358, 361, 362, 363
meningo-encephalitis, 340, 361, 372
Menoneia, 52
metaphor, 8, 15, 18, 37, 42, 62, 188, 189, 191, 197, 198, 200, 210, 215, 223, 224, 225, 226, 287, 289, 291, 294, 296, 297, 313, 351, 363, 368, 382
Methodism, 58, 62, 63, 65, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 93, 94, 367
Methodists and Caelius Aurelianus, 78–93
Michael Psellus, 230, 233, 283, 287, 298, 301, 309
mind
theories of, 36
mind, pathology of
disease entities see disease
health vs illness, 3
mind vs body, 3
morality, 146, 350
Christian, 302
male, 188
Morgagni, Giovanbattista, 327–329, 340, 347, 389
motor, disturbance, 26, 142, 145, 148, 159, 160, 185
Nemesius, 175, 388
nerves, 96, 100, 101, 145, 147–148, 149, 161, 170, 183, 206–207, 234, 248, 257, 352, 367, 383, 389
neura (as Greek medical term), 96–97, 100, 126, 387
neurology, 96, 142, 163, 188, 356, 362
Nicophorus Gregoras, 304
nomenclature, 22, 100, 274, 316, 338, 377, 378, 380
noos, 12
Odo of Cluny, 291
Olbert of Gembloux, 296
Onulphus of Hautmont, 303
oppression, 25, 62, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 134, 150, 151, 155, 176, 218, 227, 245, 265, 269, 304, 352
Oribasius, 174, 177
Origen, 198, 206
pain, 12, 16, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 50, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 78, 84, 87, 89, 96, 98, 106, 107, 135, 138, 147, 149, 151, 159, 160, 163, 180, 181, 201, 227, 228, 230, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 249, 252, 253, 255, 260, 265, 266, 267, 269, 277, 280, 303, 322, 323, 325, 327, 328, 330, 331, 332, 336, 342, 343, 344, 347, 357, 378, 380
Paley, Robert, 342
Palladius of Alexandria, 231
Pantegni, 255, 256, 257, 269, 388
Paracelsianism, 317, 333, 335, 336
Paracelsus, 317, 333–336
Paragranum, 334
paraphrenitis, 348
paraphrosynē, 110, 117, 120, 121, 137, 142, 143, 154, 168, 170, 172, 177, 179, 182
patients
Anabilla (patient case in medieval England), 308
in Caelius Aurelianus, 84
case described by Herman Boerhaave, 324
discussed by Gerard Van Swieten, 331
discussed by Giovanbattista Morgagni, 327–329
Hippocratic, 21–30
imperial age, 129–164
modern, 342–347
profiling, 168–170, 350
Paul of Aegina, 51, 133, 174, 176, 178, 180, 183, 235, 240, 261, 284, 375, 388
Paulus of Nicaea, 233
Peckham, John, 296
perception, 51, 141, 146, 181, 199, 287, 365
acoustic, 143
flawed, 43, 67, 73, 142, 163, 234, 249, 289
lack of, 234
olfactory, 143
optical, 143
tactile, 143
peripleumoniē, 22, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 41, 48, 67, 165, 166
Peter Chrysologus, 208
Peter Damian, 292, 307, 309
Petronius, 191
phantasia (imagination), 73
Philip of Harveng, 295, 299
phlegm, 22, 28, 31, 32, 39, 46, 47, 48, 70, 119, 134, 150, 178, 230, 241, 252, 255, 256, 260, 272, 386, 389
Photius, 233
phrēn/phrenes, 7, 11–17, 19, 36–44, 50–53, 82, 103–105, 107, 108, 109, 112, 121, 141, 152, 229, 249, 250, 259, 275, 278, 368, 371, 377, 381
vitality, 67
phrenitis
and astrology, 218–219, 221, 247, 306–307, 333
chronology of, 118
ethnic variations, 217
kinds of, 87–88
in kings and leaders, 188, 193, 194, 302, 303, 304
legal standing, 189, 222–223, 282, 284, 307–308, 313, 316
as metaphor, 287
and poverty, 350
and prophecy, 183, 184, 188, 190, 217, 218, 305
as quintessential disease, 187
severity of, 86
and society, 217, 314
status quaestionis, 19–20
and supernatural occurrences, 218
phrenology, 360, 383–384
phrontis, 29, 50
physiognomy, 170, 231, 266, 383
Pindar, 15, 16, 291, 357
Pinel, Philippe, 339, 389
Plato, Timaeus, 13, 34, 44, 100, 103, 279, 377
pleurai, 67, 229, 285
pleuritis, 60, 67, 86, 135, 166, 195, 233, 238, 243, 273, 325
Pliny, 44, 77, 189, 220, 221, 322
Plutarch, 4, 6, 60, 188, 190, 192, 193, 194, 195, 203, 213, 303, 367
pneumonia, 22, 32, 45, 67, 77, 81, 86, 87, 134, 263, 371
Practica Maestri Bartholomaei, 253
Praxagoras, 55
Procopius, 302
prognosis, 30, 32, 81, 94, 110, 125, 140, 158, 280, 349
psychē, 12, 16, 44, 52, 112, 229
psychology, 7, 12, 15, 29, 44, 58, 60, 69, 72, 78, 79, 83, 85, 91, 93, 132, 159, 160, 162, 173, 186, 215, 272, 285, 323, 334, 349, 359, 367, 372
pulse, 156–157, 182, 183, 219, 233, 234, 235, 241, 243, 244, 246, 249, 253, 257, 259, 264, 275, 276, 280, 319, 324, 327, 341, 344, 347
putridity, 46, 245, 335, 349
Qānūn fīl-ṭibb, 238, 246
Qarānīṭis, 238, 240, 242
Quellenforschung, 84
Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, 220
Quoduultdeus, 208, 209, 212
rabies, 124, 253, 263, 268, 285, 322, 351, 352, 375
Radboud of Utrecht, 291
Rather, bishop of Verona, 290
reception of Greek medicine, 315–316, 346, 350, 367–373
reductionism, 160
Renaissance, medicine, 315–336
respiration, 33, 36, 38, 50, 87, 105, 113, 132, 156, 157, 158, 183, 233, 264, 266, 280, 281, 319, 321, 341, 343, 352, 353
retrospective diagnosis, 7, 24, 29, 193, 244, 370, 372
ancient, 50
Rhetorius, 306
root, etymological see etymology
Rudolf of St Trond, 290
Rufus of Ephesus, 4, 157
Rupert of Deutz, 309
Saalmann, Ferdinand, 348–350
sadness, 88, 92, 169, 205, 245, 265
Saint-Amand, Jean de, 270
Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital reports, 331–332
Salernitan medicine, 251–258
satire, Roman genre, 191–192, 314, 338
satyriasis, 4
scholia, 226
seasons, 68, 86, 168, 277, 373, 376
summer, 368, 373, 374–376
winter, 22, 32, 33, 48, 49, 56, 86, 116, 136, 169, 179, 189, 194, 347, 373, 374
Sedulius Scottus, 295, 300
semiotics, v, 4, 94, 111, 120, 128, 153, 270, 323, 370
Seneca the Elder, 189
Seneca the Younger, 190, 213, 313
Sennert, Daniel, 318–321, 389
senses
hearing, 114, 139, 143, 159, 198, 349, 362
receptiveness of, 139–141
sensitivity of, 232
sight, 28, 114, 143, 234
smell, 54, 143, 165, 191, 198, 220, 221, 232, 258, 305
stimulation of, 288
taste, 220
touch, 2, 23, 30, 45, 87, 121, 133, 138, 143, 198, 256, 265, 280, 316, 328
vividness in dreams, 28, 140, 151, 183, 199
Servius, 217
setu, 250, 371
sex, 86, 170, 313, 364
sexual indulgence, 50, 148, 170, 297, 338
sexual variation, 86
Sextus Amarcius, 310
Sextus Empiricus, 190
Shakespeare, William, 311–313
sigla
in Hipp. Epid. 3, 50
signs
prodromic, 68
signs and symptoms, 4
a capite ad calcem, 81, 96, 130, 131, 164, 247, 255, 343
in Caelius Aurelianus, 84–86
Hippocratic, 30
Simon of Genoa, 253
sirsām, 235–243, 262
skin, 43, 98, 99, 171, 220, 258, 341, 344, 345, 346, 353, 362, 372
sleep, 11, 24, 26, 62, 75, 76–78, 84, 85, 87, 90, 96, 111, 114, 118–134, 149–152, 157, 158, 165, 166, 167, 170, 172, 174, 181, 182, 183, 190, 194, 199, 201, 211, 216, 219, 221, 228, 250, 256, 264, 265, 267, 269, 273, 280, 288, 296, 297, 306, 320, 321, 324, 330, 331, 342, 348
agrypnia, 111, 114, 118, 119, 120, 124, 127, 131, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 170, 182, 183, 233
disturbance, 26, 27, 28, 30, 46
kōma, 119, 121, 135, 150, 151, 152, 153, 234
as metaphor, 198–199, 211, 307, 309, 321
as therapy, 56, 74, 75, 134, 267, 268
types of disturbance, 118–120
soul
in ancient philosophy, 40
soul/psychē
hēgemonikon, 101, 108, 116, 167, 304, 387
soul/psychē
epithymoumenon, 100, 103
hēgemonikon, 100, 108, 146, 150, 166
thymoumenon, 100
spine, 39, 234, 285, 353
Stephanus of Byzantium, 232
stomach, 34, 39, 41, 65, 103, 107, 228, 240, 255, 258, 270, 271, 275, 282, 285, 335, 341, 348, 354, 358, 386
strength, pathological, 161, 188, 206–207
stress, 365–367
sun, 169, 181, 277, 324, 339, 341, 345, 354, 368
sun disease, 374–376
Sutton, Thomas, 338
sweat, 113, 132, 139, 155, 228, 349
sweating, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 114, 125, 132, 138, 139, 156, 263, 272, 337, 349, 370
Sym, John, 337
sympathy, 71, 95, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104, 109, 119, 167, 176, 183, 233, 239, 387
symptomatization, 347
Syriac Book of Medicines, 246–251
Syriac sources, 235–237, 246–251
Talmud, 282–284, 389
taxonomy, 4, 6, 18, 47, 48, 86, 87, 119, 120, 134, 136, 164, 179, 184, 285, 318, 339, 346, 360, 361, 380–384
technicality, 7, 9, 56, 59, 186, 187, 189, 192, 196, 221, 224, 225, 226, 230, 312, 313, 367
teleology, 227
terminology, 106, 282, 316, 377
Tertullian, 190
tetanus, 3
Themison, 80–81, 372, 387
Theodoret, 199, 200, 205
Theophilus Protospatharius, 233
therapy, 72, 106, 218, 247, 260, 267, 273, 323, 327, 333, 334, 344
animal ingredients, 254
animal parts, 257
bloodletting, 129
in Caelius Aurelianus, 93
cautious, 70
coercion as, 73
dietetics, 53, 58, 72, 78, 89, 93, 132, 134, 135, 162, 173, 174, 181, 185, 258, 260, 268, 273, 308, 321
in Galen, 170–173
harsh, 70
of the head, 77, 97, 342
late antique and Byzantine, 179–183
light and darkness as, 74
massage, 33, 74, 75, 90, 98, 165, 173, 181, 243, 260
oxyrrhodinum, 81, 108, 171, 177, 180, 267, 273
pharmacological, 58, 77, 78, 135, 162, 172, 173, 174, 189, 267, 268
phlebotomy, 74, 129, 134, 135, 171, 177, 241, 258, 267, 269, 273, 277, 281, 342, 343, 352
psychotherapy, 77, 78, 133, 139, 244, 321, 336, 359
purging, 22, 32, 38, 134, 171, 179, 263, 267, 321, 327, 334, 344
soothing, 69
‘tough love’ as, 215
Thessalus, 80, 81, 84, 108, 387
thymos, 12, 16, 182, 219, 232
tissue, 38, 229, 344, 360, see histology
torso, 17, 250, 328, 358
tragedy (Athenian), 12, 15, 16, 187, 287, 374
typhus, 3
Ulpian, 222
urine, 24, 25–26, 112–114
van Swieten, Gerard, 322–327, 332, 337, 340, 356
ventricles, 251
Vesalius, Andreas, 315, 317
vessels, 39, 135, 170, 177, 323, 328, 329, 335, 389
veterinary, 293–294, 350–354
Vettius Valens, 218
Viaticum, 258, 388
vitalism, 317, 335, 366
vocabulary, 8, 14, 19, 106, 146, 187, 196, 226, 229, 239, 252, 290, 378–384
voice, 153–155
as sign, 24
Western medicine, 2, 175, 261
William of Auvergne, 292, 293, 297, 301
William of Conches, 288
William of Ockham, 288
William of Tyre, 304
Willis, Thomas, 356
wine, 54, 127, 181, 200, 204, 232, 258, 282, 294, 303, 308, 324, 331
and drunkenness, 194, 198, 208, 228, 229, 308–311, 324, 337, 338–339, 364
as therapy, 32, 33, 42, 56, 71, 92, 165, 172, –181–182
as trigger of phrenitis, 42
womb, 42, 49, 240, 255, 258, 275, 276, 277, 285, 358
Wycliff, John, 301
yawning, 149, 158, 241, 263, 272
yellow, 285
Youatt, William, 351–355
Zentrenlehre, 360

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  • Chiara Thumiger, Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
  • Book: <i>Phrenitis</i> and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
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