Pneuma (ancient medicine)
- Pneuma (ancient medicine)
In ancient Greek medicine, pneuma is the form of air required by various organs to function. It is the material that sustains consciousness in a body. According to Diocles and Praxagoras, the psychic pneuma mediates between the heart, regarded as the seat of Mind in some physiological theories of ancient medicine, and the brain. [Philip J. van der Eijk, "The Heart, the Brain, the Blood and the "pneuma": Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the Location of Cognitive Processes," in "Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease" (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 131–132, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Aesg-6eBWCYC&pg=PA119&dq=%22psychosomatic+disorder%22+intitle:medicine+intitle:and+intitle:Philosophy+intitle:in+intitle:Classical+intitle:Antiquity&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=ACfU3U37x78GtoSB-kPg1szUaFoyy-AgUw limited preview.] ISBN 0521818001]
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