17.06.2015 Views

HOBART_Medical_Langu.. - Bbc-cromwell.org

HOBART_Medical_Langu.. - Bbc-cromwell.org

HOBART_Medical_Langu.. - Bbc-cromwell.org

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

—<br />

—<br />

—:<br />

20 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. [part i.<br />

St. Luke here enters more into the medical details of the<br />

case than the other Evangelists, stating some particulars<br />

passed over by them ;<br />

came on suddenly<br />

we learn from him alone that the fits<br />

eE,ai(j}vr]g<br />

also that they lasted a considerable time<br />

hardly departeth from him.<br />

It is worthy of note that Aretaeus,<br />

Kpat^si, he suddenly crieth out<br />

fxojLg aTTo\(i)pv.—<br />

a physician of about<br />

St. Luke's time, in treating of Epilepsy, admits the possibility<br />

of this disease being produced by demoniacal agency.<br />

He writes, Sign. Morb. Diuturn. 37 (Epilepsy) : touvekev<br />

hpriv KiKXijaKOVCTL Trjv irc'iOriv' arap KOt ci aXXag vpocpaaiag,<br />

T] fiiyeOoQ Tov kukov' lepov yap to fxiya' r) lifcriog oiik avOpio-<br />

TTirjg aXXa ddtig. rj Sai/movog Eo^rig kg tov avOpoJirov tlcroSoVj<br />

7] ^v/ULwavTwv ofjLOV, T}]vde £7ri»cXr)(TKOv tepjjv.<br />

Now, this was a complete revolution in medical science<br />

since the time of<br />

Hippocrates, who repudiates the idea that<br />

Epilepsy (called the sacred disease, r/ Uprj voaog), was more<br />

supernatural than any other.<br />

In the beginning of his treatise<br />

on Epilepsy he writes : TnpX plv Trig hprig voaov KaXiofilvrig<br />

a»S t'x^i' oudiv ri fxoi SoKiu twv aXXu)v usLOTiprj elvai<br />

vovaujv ovdl lepwTepr}, aXXa (j)V(7iv fx^v t^^i rjv kol to. Xoiira<br />

vovcTiifxaTa oOsv yivBTai. This statement he repeats (303),<br />

and at the conclusion : aurjj St 17 voixrog 7) hp-q KaXtofxivr) Ik<br />

tCjv avTiov Trpo({)a

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!