Classical Studies 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Theophrastus, Heartburn, Pharmaceutical Industry

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31 May 2012

School

Western University

Department

Classical Studies

Course

Classical Studies 2900

Professor

Beate Gundert

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The empiricists (200 b. c. -200 a. d. : they base their medical ideas around experience. The greek word for experience is idea - they call themselves the people who deal with experience: peira - refers to experiments. There are different theories, every philosopher who is different in his philosophies would be convincing in arguments: we cannot decide what is true because we cannot follow any one theory and must take experiences as they are. We have different opinions about what causes disease. We talked about what is inside the body and for a long time what is to be known. Theories were based mainly on speculation in the hippo- cratics and analogy and deduce what might go on inside the body. Later in hel- lenistic medicine, the body was actually cut open and we could see what went on inside the body. What we could observe led both h and e to theories about how the body worked.

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