Medica Sacra Or A Commentary On The Most Remarkable Diseases Me

That the Dæmoniacs, [Greek: daimonizomenoi], mentioned in the gospels, laboured under a disease really natural, tho' of an obstinate and difficult kind, appears to me very proba...

Old-age _itself is a disease_, as the poet has properly expressed it[73]. Wherefore as I have frequently read with pleasure, the very elegant description of it, given by Solomon...

A most severe disease, to which the bodies of the Jews were very subject, was the Leprosy. Its signs recorded in the holy scriptures are chiefly these. Pimples arose in the skin...

There are three paralytics recorded in the holy gospels to have been cured by Jesus Christ[91]. The case of one of these, which is the third, having some singularities in it, I...

As some ancient physicians attributed the falling sickness to some divine power, so they ascribed madness to the influence of the moon. Yet the lunatic, [Greek: selêniazomenos],...

THE disease with which Herod Agrippa is said to have been smitten, by the just judgment of God, in punishment for his pride and of which he died, is remarkable. For he finished...

Job's disease is rendered remarkable by some uncommon circumstances and consequences; such as the dignity of the man, the sudden change of his condition, his extraordinary adver...

When "King Saul was abandoned by the Spirit of God, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him; his courtiers persuaded him to command his servants to seek out somebody that...

In the number of diseases, I rank the death of Judas, the wicked betrayer of Christ; of which I shall treat the more willingly, because very learned interpreters of the holy scr...

Those things, which are related of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, appear so surprizing and contrary to nature, that some interpreters have imagined that he was really transform...

Before I close this chapter, it may not be improper to offer my conjecture concerning the disease of this illustrious man. But previous to this, it is proper to remark, that it...

"There was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was so bowed together, that she could in no wise lift up herself, and Jesus laid his hands on her, and she...

"When Hezekiah lay sick of a mortal disease, and the prophet Isaiah went and declared to him, by God's express command, that he should die and not recover; the Lord moved by his...

Of king Jehoram it is related, that, "for his wicked life, the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease, so that he voided his intestines daily for the space of tw...

Saint Luke relates of Christ himself, that, "when he was in an agony by the fervency of his prayers, his sweat was like drops of blood falling down on the[139] ground."

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 fr...