Classical Studies 2900 Lecture Notes - Cool Air, Portal Vein, Smooth Muscle Tissue
31 May 2012
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In this passage, explains that lions have teeth and claw to defend themselves. Man has hands which serves an instrument to create all kinds of things: man does not just have hands, man also has reason. Reason is much better than what animals have. Passage #262, page 167: galen takes the system of four humours and believes that this particular hippocrat- ic book was written by hippocrates himself, hippocrates is somehow a hero for galen; must have done everything right. Since there are four quali- ties there must be four combinations of qualities; dry and cold: galen sees himself as a philosopher. Hippocrates was also a combined philoso- pher and doctor of medicine: celsus tells us that hippocrates separated medicine from philosophy. Hippocrates was not just a physician but also a philosopher. He thinks that hippocrates was also a philosopher in search of the truth: galen then attaches different humours not just to qualities but to seasons.
