CLASSIC 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hippocratic Oath, Dream Interpretation
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Many physicians had regimens, such as what is good and what is bad. There is an idea that you can justify the dietary recommendations of regimen by appealing to the way that the body works. If you want to extrapolate from things you observe to things you haven"t observed, helpful to have theory that connects present to future. Veins are hollow passages within the flesh which allows fire to move around the belly, and belly is the most inside. Assumed that the body was arranged by fire. Things are mainly consisted of 3 parts: earth has air, water, and sea. In addition, sky has sun, moon, and stars. Conflict of orbits in heavens are in relation to conflict in bodily orbits. The soul cleans up the body, checks parts to make sure they are clean. A dream indicates that the soul has found a problem in the body.
