all those who lack reason are insane) and could by teaching or persuasion dissipate the sicknesses of the soul: 'there is no need, as there is for the body, to look outside the self, and we must employ all of our resources and all our forces to ensure that we are in a state to cure ourselves', and second there was a form of knowledge that could recognise in madness the effect of violent passions, irregular movements of black bile, and all 'that order of causes that spring to mind when thinking of Athamas, Alcmeon, Ajax and Orestes'.