On The Sacred Disease

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Author: Hippocrates ISBN: 9781465528049
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Hippocrates
ISBN: 9781465528049
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
It is thus with regard to The disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than Other diseases, but has a natural cause from The originates like Other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to Other diseases. and this notion of its divinity is kept up by Their inability to comprehend it, and The simplicity of The mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. But if it is reckoned divine because it is wonderful, instead of one There are many diseases which would be sacred; for, as I will show, There are Others no less wonderful and prodigious, which nobody imagines to be sacred. The quotidian, tertian, and quartan fevers, seem to me no less sacred and divine in Their origin than this disease, although They are not reckoned so wonderful. and I see men become mad and demented from no manifest cause, and at The same time doing many things out of place; and I have known many persons in sleep groaning and crying out, some in a state of suffocation, some jumping up and fleeing out of doors, and deprived of Their reason until They awaken, and afterward becoming well and rational as before, although They be pale and weak; and this will happen not once but frequently. and There are many and various things of The like kind, which it would be tedious to state particularly.
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It is thus with regard to The disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than Other diseases, but has a natural cause from The originates like Other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to Other diseases. and this notion of its divinity is kept up by Their inability to comprehend it, and The simplicity of The mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. But if it is reckoned divine because it is wonderful, instead of one There are many diseases which would be sacred; for, as I will show, There are Others no less wonderful and prodigious, which nobody imagines to be sacred. The quotidian, tertian, and quartan fevers, seem to me no less sacred and divine in Their origin than this disease, although They are not reckoned so wonderful. and I see men become mad and demented from no manifest cause, and at The same time doing many things out of place; and I have known many persons in sleep groaning and crying out, some in a state of suffocation, some jumping up and fleeing out of doors, and deprived of Their reason until They awaken, and afterward becoming well and rational as before, although They be pale and weak; and this will happen not once but frequently. and There are many and various things of The like kind, which it would be tedious to state particularly.

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