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54 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. [part it.
PAET II.
MEDICAL LANGUAGE USED OUTSIDE MEDICAL
SUBJECTS.
It is evident from the examples adduced out of the Greek
medical writers, in the previous part, that precise medical
terms are
employed in the narrative of the miracles of healing
both in the third Gospel and in the Acts of the Apostles,
But above and beyond this fact there would seem to be a
vein of medical language running through the general history,
and appearing chiefly in the use of some toords peculiar
to the author, or in the use of others which, though not peculiar
to him, are yet of morefrequent occurrence in his writings
than in the rest of the New Testament, and all of which were
in common use with the Greek physicians.
It is the object of this second part to establish this point,
which may not meet with so ready an acceptance at first
sight as that of the use of medical terms in the account of
the miracles.
It will, however, I think, appear clearly from
a comparison of the language of the thu-d Gospel with that
of the other Evangelists in some parallel passages. This
comparison will establish the fact that in these passages at
least St. Luke strongly inclined to the use of
in his general history.
medical words
§ XXXVI.
* TrAfjjUjuupa. * Tr^oap{]yvvfii. * avixTrliXTiiv. * prjyi^ia.
St. Matthew, in recording our Lord's discourse about the
houses built on the rock and on the sand, says (ch. vii. 27) :
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds