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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Prologue | |
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| A Note on Terminology | |
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| Foundations: Ancient Insights: (Antiquity: Sixth Century BC to Second Century AD) | |
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| Cosmic Elements | |
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| Human Elements | |
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| Types, Temperaments, and Environments | |
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| Prescriptions and Priests | |
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| From Greece to Alexandria | |
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| The Naked Eye | |
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| The Breath of Life | |
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| Alexandrian Sects and Galenic Travels | |
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| Primordial Passions | |
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| Three Souls | |
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| Essences: The Classical Trail: (Eastern Middle Ages: Seventh to Twelfth Centuries) | |
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| Byzantium | |
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| The Arab Conquest | |
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| Hunayn ibn-Is'haq and the Translators | |
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| Divine Creation and Human Frailty | |
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| Religion and Emotion | |
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| New Departures | |
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| Persian Insights | |
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| Out of Spain | |
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| Remedies: Miraculous Medicine: (Western Middle Ages: Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries) | |
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| Faith and Healing | |
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| Scholasticism and Humoural Care | |
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| Old Convictions | |
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| The High and the Low | |
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| Outsiders | |
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| Bloody Treatments | |
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| Verbena, Olives, and Herbal Power | |
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| Apothecaries, Alchemists, and Amulets | |
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| Airs, Waters, Places, Diets | |
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| Fearful Epidemics | |
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| Life After Death | |
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| Harmonies: Renaissance Bodies and Melancholy Souls: (Renaissance: Fifteenth Century to Early Seventeenth Century) | |
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| Hypochondria at Court | |
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| The Black Sun | |
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| Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics | |
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| Cosmic Attunement | |
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| Musical Therapy | |
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| Artistic Astrology | |
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| Paracelsus and the Magic of Nature | |
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| Corpses, Books, and Reputations | |
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| Beauty Beneath the Skin | |
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| New Bodies, Old Science | |
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| Diagnosing Melancholy | |
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| Love-Maladies | |
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| Uterine Fury and Satyriasis | |
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| Anti-Melancholy Antidotes | |
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| Nature: Of Blood, Airs, and Reasons: (Scientific Revolution: Seventeenth Century) | |
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| New Science, Old Bodies | |
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| Campanella's Heavens and Galileo's Revolutions | |
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| Atoms and Humours | |
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| From Spirits to Circulation | |
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| Harvey's Blood | |
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| Cartesian Souls | |
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| Anti-Humours | |
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| Empiricism | |
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| Medical Secrets and Popular Healers | |
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| Transfusions and Confusions | |
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| Brain: Passions and Nerves: (The Making of Modernity: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) | |
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| Cartesian Humours | |
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| The Physiological Self | |
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| The Sensitive Soul | |
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| Introducing "Neurologie" | |
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| Enlightened Thinkers, Old-Fashioned Doctors, and the Embodied Mind | |
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| Of Mechanism and Vitalism | |
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| Nervous Juice | |
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| The Material Soul | |
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| Modern Humours | |
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| Mental Illness | |
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| Mesmerism | |
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| The Birth of Psychiatry | |
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| Brain Localization | |
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| Hypnosis, Hysterics, Neurosis | |
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| Science: Contemporary Humours: (Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries) | |
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| The Neurological Self | |
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| The Pharmaceutical Self | |
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| Brain Images and Body Image | |
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| The Emotional Self | |
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| New Temperaments | |
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| Mind Over Matter | |
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| The Regimen Returns | |
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| Full Circle | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |