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14 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. [part i.
a long time it had caught him." Now the mentioning the
length of time a malady has lasted is quite in the manner of
the medical writers. St. Luke does this often as in Ch. viii.
43, xiii. 11 ; Acts, iii. 2, iv. 22, and ix. 13; and here it
would be appropriate in a medical writer to do so, as one
of the medical notes of mania was that it was intermittent.
Aretaeus, Sign. Morb. Diuturn. 37 : irepi Mavir^g—
juiavir) Ee Koi diaXiiTrei Koi fxsXedojvL tg riXog aTroiravsTai.
Again, St. Luke alone states that the man was naked, and
this was another of the medical notes of mania. The Archbishop
of Dublin [Notes on the Miracles, p. 168), on this
passage, quotes from Pritchard on Insanity, " a striking ai;id
characteristic circumstance is the propensity to go quite
naked ; the patient tears his clothes to tatters." This propensity
was one of the notes of mania in St. Luke's day, too,
for Aretaeus, in his chapter on mania, states the same thing.
Sign. Morb. Diuturn. 37 : Trtpi Mavir/e
Ipprj^avTo.
loB'
ore laQnTag re
St. Luke, too, states more clearly than the two other
Evangelists that the man had taken up his abode in the
tombs as his dwelling-place. A propensity to do this is also
mentioned by ancient physicians in connexion with madness.
See Actius de Melancholia ex Graleno, Eufo, &c., ch. i.
(Galen, xix. 702) : ol irXdovg fxivroi Iv oKOTHvoig roiroig
\aipov(TL dLarpifieiv koi Iv fXvrtfJidoLg koX tv epijfxoig.
§ XIII.
*laTavai. pvcng al/narog. * irpoffavaXiffKeiV'
The woman icith an issue of blood.—Luke, viii. 43, 44
And a woman having an issue of blood (ovaa Iv pvaei alfiaTog)
twelve years, which had sjjent (Tr/ooo-avaAato-aaa) all her living
upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind
him and touched the border of his garment, and immediately
her issue of blood (r; pvaig tov alfxarog avTi^g) stanched
(tart)) .