[243] Lit. catharsis.
[244] Apparently some form of anaemia.
[245] Philistion of Locri, a contemporary of Plato, was one of the chief representatives of the Sicilian school of medicine. For Diocles and Praxagoras see p. 51, [note 1].
[246] cf. Book I., chap. [iii].
[247] Gk. pepsis; otherwise rendered coction.
[249] e.g. Asclepiades.
[250] Lit. chylosis; cf. p. 238, [note 2].
[251] That is to say, the haematopoietic function deserves consideration as much as the digestive processes which precede it.
[252] i.e. Erasistratus could obviously say nothing about any of the humours or their origins, since he had not postulated the four qualities (particularly the Warm—that is, innate heat).