Medica sacra ; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings.

  • Shapter, Thomas.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Medica sacra ; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    still enjoys, as a mark of specific distinc- tion, the epithet of Egyptian, by which it is so forcibly described in the Sacred writ- ings ; and in another place I have quoted the words of Lucretius, to shew that this disease was considered as having its origin on the banks of the Nile, in the centre of the kingdom of Egypt: and thus Pliny also observes, “ ad postremum vero nigres- cente, et ad ossa carnes apprimente, in- tumescentibus digitis in pedibus manibus- que.”(x) Boothroyd, in his note on the thirty-fifth verse, says, “ that it contains a correct description of the Elephantiasis,” and adds, “ that as no cure has been discovered for this disease, it agrees perfectly with the description of Moses.” I shall not deviate here from the mode that I have pursued, in the preceding pages, (1) Pliny, Hist. Naturalis, lib. xxvi. cap. 1.