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Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World Studies in Ancient Medicine Edited by John Scarborough Philip J. van der Eijk Ann Ellis Hanson Joseph Ziegler VOLUME 45 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/sam Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World Edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover image: Patients arrived to consult a physician from a medieval manuscript now in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale cod. gr. 2243, fol. 10 verso. After fig. 1 from Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts by Loren Carey MacKinney, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London 1965. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Petridou, Georgia, editor. | Thumiger, Chiara, editor. Title: Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] | Series: Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421 ; volume 45 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015032061| ISBN 9789004305557 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004305564 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Physician and patient—History. | Medicine, Ancient. | Medical ethics—History. Classification: LCC R135 .H66 2016 | DDC 610.9—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015032061 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0925-1421 isbn 978-90-04-30555-7 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-30556-4 (e-book) Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Figures x Notes on the Contributors xi Bibliographical Note xv Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient’s View 1 Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger part 1 Medical Authority and Patient Perspectives 1 “This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life”. The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (CIG 3272; Peek GV 1166) 23 Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge 81 Melinda Letts part 2 Case Histories in the Hippocratic Corpus 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases 107 Chiara Thumiger 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 138 John Z. Wee 5 Voice Pathologies and the ‘Hippocratic Triangle’ 166 Colin Webster vi contents part 3 Patients and Psychological Illness 6 Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder 203 Susan P. Mattern 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine 224 Pauline Koetschet part 4 Emotional Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relationship 8 Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus 247 Jennifer Kosak 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus’ Gynaecia 265 Lesley Bolton 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases 285 Amber J. Porter 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor 304 Courtney Roby part 5 Material Aspects, Diagnostic Techniques and their Impact on the Patient-Physician Relationship 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient 325 Giulia Ecca 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction 345 Orly Lewis contents vii 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor 365 Patricia A. Baker 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines 390 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos part 6 The Informed Patient: Self-Healing and the Patient as Physician 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen’s Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda 413 John M. Wilkins 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire 432 Jane Draycott 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician 451 Georgia Petridou 19 “It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you” 471 Katherine D. van Schaik 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe 497 Michael Stolberg Index locorum 519 Index rerum 543 Acknowledgements All but one of the contributions included here were first presented in a three- day international conference, which took place at Humboldt University in July of 2012. The conference was organised by the editors under the auspices of the ‘Medicine of the Mind—Philosophy of the Body, Discourses of Health and Disease in the Ancient World’ research programme and was generously funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We are extremely grateful to Philip van der Eijk, the director of the pro- gramme, for supporting us throughout the process of organising the con- ference and publishing the proceedings. We would also like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its generous financial support, which made both the original conference and the ensuing publication possible. We are indebted to the speakers and the participants of the original conference for making it an informative and memorable occasion. Special thanks are owed to Brooke Holmes, Michael Fontaine, Carin Green, Ido Israelowich, Lesley Dean- Jones, George Kazantzidis, Helen King, Karl-Heinz Leven for livening up the discussion during the original event, but whose papers do not appear in this volume. Finally, we are extremely grateful to Manfred Horstmanshoff for pro- viding inspiration and expert advice on all matters related to ancient medicine and patient history. We are particularly grateful to all contributors to this volume for trusting us with their work and bearing with us throughout the process of publication. Michael Stolberg, the author of the only chapter which was especially commis- sioned for this book, is especially to be thanked for accepting our invitation to provide an expert discussion of approaches to the history of the patient in early modern Europe. Furthermore, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of the indi- vidual chapters for their detailed comments and for helping us to improve the quality of this volume. We are also grateful to Katharina Hess, Annette Schmidt and Konstantin Schulz for their valuable assistance in formatting the book. We are indebted to the Wellcome Trust, the University of Cologne database (Arachne) and the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut for their help with sourcing the images. Special thanks are owed to Paul Scade for improving the English in a number of places, to the ERC funded ‘Lived Ancient Religion’ pro- ject Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, and its director Jörg Rüpke, for supporting Georgia Petridou during the final year of the preparation of this volume. Finally, we should thank Richard Gordon for reading a draft of our introduction and the editorial board of Studies in Ancient Medicine at Brill, as well as Caroline van Erp, Tessel Jonquière, and Tessa Schild for their help and assistance.
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