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12 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OP ST. LUKE. [part i.
Hipp. Epid. 1220 : Svacpopwg (pipwv tov irvptrov evdvg air'
ap^TiQ Kttl avuKaOi^wv rpiTalog tTrruaev oj)(^pov. Hipp. Coac.
Progn. 197 : avaKaOlZ^iv Se (dovXeadai kukov ev toXcjiv o^iai.
Aretaeus, Sign. Morb. Acut. 9 : koi 7^ jwev icaraKEwvrai, ava-
KaBi^ovai avaKEKXiaOat ouk avEX^jUSvoi, T]v Se avaKdiawcri, utto
aTTopijjc avOig avaKXivovrai. Galen. Comm. i. 20, Progn.
(xviii. B. 65) : Xiyovm ol TrepLirvevinoviKOL ffrevo^wptac aicr-
OaveaOai Kara tov OojpriKa kol irviVfiova ttoXX^c ev Toig vTrrlaig
KUTaKXiaicnv, evirvovaTEpoL de dvaKadit,ovT£g yweauai—
y^aXiTrwraTOv tan avaKaOi^uv WeXsiv tov Kafivovra—ava/ca-
OiZ^iv iTTixeipelv tov KafivovTa Kara Trfv aicjiirjv tjjc vocrov, &C.
Galen. Loc. Affect, v. 3 (viii. 334) : dib kol jUETao-\»]juart^aadai
TrpoOvfxovvTai koi dvaKa6i(^eiv.
The description of the several gradual stages of recovery
—he sat up—then began to speak—is
quite in the manner
of medical writing. St. Luke frequently does this ; e. g. in
the case of the lame 'man at the gate of the temple, of Tabitha,
of the blindness of Elymas, &c.
Luke, vii. 21 :
§ XT.
And in the same hour he cured many of
their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits (otto voawv kol
fxaaTiywv Ka\ TTVEUjixartov TTOVijptJi/).
In this passage diseases are divided into two classes
voaoi and fiaaTiyeg—chronic and acute {voaog = XPO^'« kuko-
Trddeia, Theophyl.). Aretaeus, who wrote about St. Luke's
time, makes a similar division, his medical works treating
the signs, causes, and cure of (1) acute and (2) chronic disease.
The word Trovnpog is applied to evil spirits by St. Luke
alone (except once. Matt. xii. 45 : Then goeth he, and taketh
with himself seven other spirits more wicked (TrovjjoorEpa)
than himself). He uses it again viii. 2, xi. 26 ; Acts, xix. 12,
13, 15, 16. This word was frequently used in medical language
in rolaiion to disease, &c., and one of its uses is identical with
of