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Now, the stomach does not appear to exercise any attraction.Erasistatus' view that the stomach exerts no holké, or attraction, is dealt with more fully in Book III., chap. viii. But when he is dealing with anadosis he does not mention the Hippocratic view even to the extent of a single syllable. Yet we should have been satisfied if he had even merely written this: Hippocrates lies in saying 'The fleshi.e.. the tissues. attracts both from the stomach and from without,' for it cannot attract either from the stomach or from without. Or if he had thought it worth while to state that Hippocrates was wrong in criticizing the weakness of the neck of the uterus, seeing that the orifice of the uterus has no power of attracting semen,cf. p. 291. or if he [Erasistratus] had thought proper to write any other similar opinion, then we in our turn would have defended ourselves in the following terms:
