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“Aristotle on stroke”, in Sudhoffs Archiv 90 (1) (2006): 123-124; Karenberg, A., “Reconstructing a doctrine: Galen on apoplexy”, in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 3 (2) (1994): 85–101.

13 The concepts of “spirit” (with respect to “vital”, “animal” and “vegetative”) and “pneuma” are synonymous in some ways. “Pneuma” is a broader concept since it is not only present inside the human body, but in the surrounding environment as well. A tradition has been established in historiography which prefers the concept of “spirit” to the term “pneuma” with respect to three types of endogenous pneuma. Hence we would rather use the phrase “animal spirit”, “vital spirit” and “vegetative spirit” with respect to pneuma inside the body (see: Balalykin, D.A., “The First Book of Galen’s Treatise On the doctrins of Hippocrates and Plato”, Voprosy Filosofii 8, 2015: 124–143; (In Russ.)). That being said, the use of the concepts of “animal pneuma”, “vital pneuma”, “vegetative pneuma” is not erroneous. The use of the concept of “psychic spirit” as synonymous with “animal spirit”is also not erroneous.

14 Gusev, E.I., Grechko, V.E. and Burd, G.S., Nervnye bolezni (Nervous diseases), ed. Gusev, E.I. (Moscow: Meditsina, 1988), 259–260. (In Russ.)

15 Ibid.

16 Bolezni nervnoy sistemy: Rukovodstvo dlya vrachey: V 2 t. (Diseases of the nervous system: Guide for doctors: In 2 vols.), Vol. 1, ed. Yakhno, N.N., 4th ed. (Moscow: Meditsina, 2007), 232. (In Russ.)

17 Ibid., 233.

18 Ibid., 259–261.

19 Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 2, ed., trans. and commentary de Lacy, P. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005).

20 See: Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

21 Stepin, Filosofiya nauki. Obshchie problemy, 384.

22 Ibid.

23 Ferngren, G., Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 264.

24 Nutton, V., “Medicine”, in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. XI, ch. 33 (2000).

25 Hammond, N., History of Ancient Greece (Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2003). (In Russ.)