Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford.

  • Edward Ford
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    4,i ** If (fays Mr. Crovvther, p. 280^) I fpeak confidently in favour of the former tranfla- may I not be indulged in illuftrating the propriety of this op- tional mode of interpretation, not indeed from Hippocrates, or any claffical Greek writer, but in a fimilar inftance, ftriftly rela- tive to a verb of this fame Grecian family, that occurs not feldom in different fignifications, in the Greek text of the New Teftament. Eudaeus, a |)henix in fcience, and more peculiarly in Greek literature, in his admirable .C<;/a/«<f;//.Z,/«^- Grac. now before me, with his own MS. notes, p. 404, ed. Bradij, A; D. 1529, flates on the bell authorities, a variety of fenfes in •which'lr>3;«.; 7?(?, I Hand,** and its o-vvS«.Ta, 'E^^xcrts Jeliquium, ** a fainting away, or a fwoon,''' El^ra^aj, &c. has been ufed by pure Greek writers. This unqueftionably pre-£minent Greek scholar informs us, that E|/r^/>u is ufed in various acceptations, and particularly in the two following fignifications: 1. it fignifies ^r^r^, or mente alienari, ** to be mad, or to be befide one's felf. 2. It fignifies deficere^ or deliquium ■pat'i^ to fwoon, or faint away.o ' Let uss now try to adapt the optional interpretation of this verb to the beft meaning of a paflage where it occurs, in Mark iii. v. 21. Shall we at once adhere to the common old tranflation ? ** They went out to lay hold on him, [Jefus Chrift] for they [his friends] faid, *' He is mad/' furit^ or, He is befide hlmfelf, mente alienatur. Or fliall we reje^l, merely on the account of its novelty, the following equally fair interpretation of Elcra which gives a widely different meaning to this palTage of the Evangelili r They went out to get him into their pof- felTion, for they faid, In Efes-ij «' He is quite exhaufled, deficit^ or, He fainteth, deliquium patitur. The context counte- nances and afcertains the propriety of this tranflation of E|es->j *' He is faint for want of food. And when his friends or