[142] The subject of anadosis is taken up in the next chapter. cf. also p. 62, [note 1].
[143] On Erasistratus v. Introd. p. [xii]. His view that the stomach exerts no holké, or attraction, is dealt with more fully in Book III., chap. [viii].
[144] i.e. the tissues.
[145] cf. p. 291.
[146] Peristalsis may be used here to translate Gk. peristolé, meaning the contraction and dilation of muscle-fibres circularly round a lumen, cf. p. 263, [note 2].
[147] For a demonstration that this phenomenon is a conclusive proof neither of peristolé nor of real vital attraction, but is found even in dead bodies v. p. [267].
[148] This was Erasistratus’s favourite principle, known in Latin as the “horror vacui” and in English as “Nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum,” although these terms are not an exact translation of the Greek. τὸ κενούμενον probably means the vacuum, not the matter evacuated, although Galen elsewhere uses κενόω in the latter (non-classical) sense, e.g. pp. [67], [215.] Akolouthia is a following-up, a sequence, almost a consequence.
[150] cf. Book II., [chap. i].
[151] Vital factor necessary over and above the mechanical.