CHAPTER XI.

_The issue of blood in a woman._

Saint Matthew relates, that "Christ, by his word alone, cured a woman who had been diseased with an issue of blood for twelve[135] years."

[135] _Chap. ix. v. 20._

And here arises a question, concerning the nature of this disease. But as the words in the Greek are [Greek: gynê haimorrhoousa], I am of opinion, that it was a flux of blood from the natural parts, which Hippocrates[136] calls [Greek: rhoon haimatôdê], and observes, that it is necessarily tedious. Wherefore having been exhausted by it for twelve years, may justly be said to be incurable by human art.

[136] _De morb. Lib. i. Sect. 3._