[273] Iatros: lit. “healer.”
[274] Lit. “physicist” or “physiologist,” the student of the physis. cf. p. 70, [note 2].
[275] That is, a blending of the four principles in their natural proportion; Lat. temperies. Dyscrasia = intemperies, “distemper.”
[276] This is the orthodox Hippocratic treatment, that of opposites by opposites. Contrast the homoeopathic principle which is the basis of our modern methods of immunisation (similia similibus curentur, Hahnemann).
[277] Lit. aseptic.
[278] Prodicus of Ceos, a Sophist, contemporary of Socrates.
[279] Plato, Timaeus, 83-86, passim.
[280] cf. the term blennorrhoea, which is still used.
[281] cf. the Scotch term “colded” for “affected with a cold”; Germ. erkältet.
[282] The word theôria used here is not the same as our theory. It is rather a “contemplation,” the process by which a theory is arrived at. cf. p. 226, [note 2].