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§ XIX.] THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. 25
§ XIX.
* irpoaayHV.
The healing of the blind man near Jericho.—Luke, xviii.
40 : And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto
him [axGrivai irpog avruv).
* irpoaayeiv and ayeiv irpog, though used by other New
Testament writers, are never applied by them to the bringing
of the sick to our Lord : this is done by St. Luke alone. Here,
and ix. 41 :
" Bring thy son hither," irpoaayaye tov viov
CTou wde, and iv. 40 :
" Now when the sun was setting, all
they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them
unto him," i'lyayov avrovg irpog avTov. In the parallel
passages to this last (Matt. viii. 16 ; Mark, i. 32), the other
Evangelists use irpocrfpipHv and ^ipuv irpog, which might
seem more strictly correct, as, no doubt, some of the sick
had to
be carried.
irpoGayuv, however, was a word of most frequent use in
medical language in several technical significations, and
among them in this very one of bringing sick to a physician.
Galen. Comp. Med. iii. 2 (xiii. 585) : l^ avayK}]g ovv r]Ko\ov-
0r]ae T(j^ Terpiofxivco depfxaaia re ttoAX?) koi Siq^ig Kot oSuvjj Kara
TO cXkocj w(tt£ a)(drivai irpog t/ut tov avOpwirov wg Itti wapa-
So^o) rt^ CTUjujSejSijKort. Galen. Comp. Med. iii. 7 (xiii. 637)
ifxoi Kf^Kayo TO irai^apiov fKiAtucrE irpocraxOrivai BepairevBrjaofxivov.
Other meanings were, to bring the sick gradually
round to food. Hipp. Vic. Eat. 374 : Ik Si tov Iphov irpoaayiadu)
eig r]fxipag Tiaaapag to gltlov— Koi £/x6tov
iroiriaafXivog
TTpuaaytTd}. Hipp. De Insom. 376 : to rpiTOv pipog a'^eAe
tov aiTiov Ku\ TOVTO /jcuxy TTpoaayov ttoXiv ig Tag irivTe
riptpag— /cat aiTLOiai KOixjjoiai TrpocrayeLv Ig rjfxipag nivTe. 377:
STTftra V^epiaavTa avdig Trpoaayuv Trpbg Tag jrivTE. 378 ; 77 Se
^laiTa fjiaXaKrj kol kov^t] 7rpoaa\9uTO} hg ripepag Tiaaapag.
And to apply remedies. Hipp, Epid. 1223 : kWi^opoi