HOBART_Medical_Langu.. - Bbc-cromwell.org

;
2')8 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. [paut ti.
determinate counsel and foreknowledge [irpoyvwaH] of God,
ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and
slain."
7rpoyiv(v(TKEiv. Acts, xxvi. 5 :
" Which kiiciv me from
the beginning " {irpo-yivwaKovTiq pe avcoOtv).
Trpoyvbjaig is used also in 1 Peter, i. 2, and irpnyivwcTKiiv
twice each by St. Paul and St. Peter : Eom. viii. 29, xi. 2
1 Pet. i. 20 ; 2 Pet. iii. 17.
Both words were much employed in medical language.
By medical prognosis was understood the power of foreseeing
and foretelling what will take place in the course of a
disease. The greatest attention was paid to this part of
medicine by the ancient physicians. Hippocrates has written
two works on the subject— KwaKat
Trpoyvwang and -rrpoyvwariKov.
Galen has a Commentary on the latter, and has
also written works, 7r£|0i irpoyvuxreiog— TrpoyvtoaTiKO. rrepl KarakXicecuc—
irpoyvwaig TreTreipapivr} Kal 7rava\j}9{jg — irepl tov
Trpoyivu)(TKiiv and irepl irpoyvManog a(j)vyp(ov, as well as irspl
diayvuxTsijog
(j^vyfihjv—and, from the importance attached to
this branch of medical science, the words themselves must
have been in constant use with medical men.
irpoyvwiTig. Galen. Comm. iii. 5, Aph. (xvii. B. 570) :
'iva Koi Tag Trpoyvwaeig aKpifiianpov ironirai. Galen. Medicus,
7 (xiv. 690) : diaiptlrai Si Koi TO ariU£i(x)TiKbv tig Tpia, tig re
tiriyvwaiv tHjv TTaptXr]Xv96Tii)v Koi tig Trjv tniaKtilnv rwv avvecptvovTwv
Ku\ tig Trpoyvtvaiv rwy jUeXXovtwv. Galen. Comm. iii. 1,
Epid. (xvii. A. 205) : cu TrottlcTOai Tag Siayvioatig koi irpoyvu)-
atig— Tijv ap^Tjv Trig rt ciayvtoatijog utto tlov ttuOwv koi T^g
taopiv^g TTpoyvwatiog airb tCjv koiviov iroiovptOa. Hipp. vie.
Rat. 366 : aAXa yap at irpoyvivaug t^tvpripivai 'ipoiye Tiov
liriKpaTiovTwv £v TM aijopttTi. Hipp. Artie. 807 : aXXa irtpl
ptv TOVTivv tv Toiai wpovioicTL Kord Tcvtvpova voai'ipaaiv tlpi'iatTai,
tKti yap tlaiv avTiov ^apiicTTUTai irpoyvioaitg Trtpl tCov
ptWovTwv tataOui. Aretaeus, Sign. Acut. Morb. 3 : 6ig Se
^vvr]dig TO wadog, i]v trroj y vovaog— tTriAr}TJjirf
— irpoyvoxn tov
ptXXovToc iW ipTTtipir]g. Galen. Comm. iii. 15, Aliment, (xv.