HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aorta, Advanced Land Observation Satellite, Insomnia
9 Jun 2018
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Galen Cont.
Part 1: On faculties and the Hands
Faculties, On Natural Faculties
• Attractive
• Retentive
• Expulsive
• Pulsative
• Contractile
• He doesnt really create a grand system, he invents a bunch of little pieces of
info
• There are faculties in the stomach, heart, etc.
• Each of the effects come from a certain activity, and each of these again are
preceded by a cause
An example: digestion
• The act of digesting is performed by the faculty of alteration/assimilation
• This faculty is in all parts of the body and attracts and processes the
nutriment it needs
• To maintain contact it requires a retentive faculty
• Retentive faculty is demonstrated through visible action of large retentive
organs, stomach and uterus
• When the uterus has finished its work of forming the baby, it stops the
retentive faculty and activates the expulsive faculty
• He thought that the blood was manufactured
• The fumes from the vital heat of the lungs get sent back and expired through
the breath
• The aorta has a pulsative faculty
Galen
• Why does Galen begin the book with the hand?
• What is the relationship of the hand to the soul
• What does Galen mean when he uses the phrases the reason why and for
the sake of
• Hands are the tool of the most intelligent animal
• Is is because he is the most intelligent that he has hands
• Hands as the operating extension of the soul
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Document Summary
He thought that the blood was manufactured: the fumes from the vital heat of the lungs get sent back and expired through the breath, the aorta has a pulsative faculty. Part 2: galen on the concept of disease. Cold: caused by contact with cold, excessive food and drink, blockage, the functioning of the arteries, blockage can cause both overheating an overcooling, laxness, cold baths can be lethal, violent chilling action. Dry: you waste when you get too dry. Caused by: moist foods, excessive drinking, sexual excess, soft water, bathing a lot, when you have too much stuff of one humour, then they dump the superfluous on the less important parts of body, swelling and fevers. Special diseases: congenital defects, birth defects, deformities from bad child rearing, bad surgery, hypertrophy and atrophy, deformed internal organs, abnormal textures, necrosis, dislocation or hernia.
