Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Galen and the History of Black Bile -- ‎1. The Origins of Black Bile and Humoral Theory -- ‎2. Galen's Doxographical Explanation for the History of Black Bile -- ‎3. Summary -- ‎Chapter 2. Key Influences on Galen's Writing on Black Bile -- ‎1. The Importance of Philosophy in Galen's Interpretation of the Hippocratic Corpus -- ‎2. The Influence of Galen's Teachers on His Views Concerning Medical Theory -- ‎3. Galen's Opinion on the Authenticity of the Hippocratic Writings -- ‎4. Galen's Polemic against Those He Considers to be Opposed to Humoral Theory -- ‎5. Summary -- ‎Chapter 3. Galen's Qualitative and Structural Characterisation of Black Bile -- ‎1. The Essential Properties of Black Bile -- ‎2. Physical Descriptions of Black Bile -- ‎3. Summary -- ‎Chapter 4. Galen's Distinction of Different Types of Black Bile -- ‎1. The Different Types of Black Bile in Galen's Writing -- ‎2. A Question of Consistency in Galen's Qualitative Characterisation of Black Bile -- ‎3. Summary -- ‎Chapter 5. Galen's Explanation of Harmful Black Bile -- ‎1. The Properties of Altered Black Bile and How This Makes It a Potentially Harmful Substance in the Body -- ‎2. Summary -- ‎Chapter 6. The Cleansing of Harmful Black Bile from the Body -- ‎1. The Importance of the Liver for the Origin of Black Bile in the Body -- ‎2. The Relationship between the Structure of the Spleen and Its Function -- ‎3. Galen's Attack on Asclepiades and Erasistratus on the Function of the Spleen to Cleanse the Body of Black Bile -- ‎4. Diseases of the Spleen in Relation to the Harmful Nature of Black Bile -- ‎5. Summary -- ‎Chapter 7. The Diseases Caused by Black Bile -- ‎1. Melancholy, the Black Bile Disease -- ‎2. Quartan Fever, the Black Bile Fever.

‎3. Cases Where the Presence of Black Bile Indicates a Terminal Disease -- ‎4. Summary -- ‎Chapter 8. Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Electronic Sources -- ‎Editions, Collections and Translations of Primary Sources -- ‎Secondary Sources -- ‎Index -- ‎Index of Sources.

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