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XXV.] THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. 39
We bave two other accounts of his conversion from St.
Paul himself, in one of which (ch. xxvi.) he does not mention
his blindness ;
in the other (ch. xxii.) he mentions the blindness
and his recovery of sight, but not the particular circumstances
attending it recorded here. He merely says : "And
one Ananias came unto me, and stood, and said unto me,
Brother Saul, receive thy sight, And the same hour I
looked up upon him." St. Luke, however, records in addition
the cii'cumstances which would obviously interest a
physician ; and in doing so he uses strictly medical terms.
* cnroTtiTTTHv is used of the falling ofi of scales from the
cuticle and particles from diseased parts of the body or
bones, &c. ;
and in one instance, by HiiDpocrates, of the scab,
caused by burning in a medical operation, from the eyelid
and *\e7rig is the medical term for the particles
or scaly substance
thrown off from the body ; it and cnroTriiTTeiv are met
with in conjunction. Hipp. De Yidendi Acie, 689 : to (5\e(papov
iTTiKavam rj T