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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    individual affliction mentioned in the differ- ent books of the Old and New Testaments, besides these which I have now enumerated, such as the leprosies of Miriam, Gehazi, and Uzziah ; but as the varieties of this disease have been fully illustrated, it would be tedious to enter further on them here. There are also other cases, of which so slight mention is made, (*) as would render any discussion on their nature futile and useless. I have now concluded these commenta- ries, and it will be no unfitting observation here, to observe, that the consideration of these diseases involves a subject of much deeper interest than that to which I have devoted the preceding pages, which it (]) The disease of King Asa is an example. Crudcn states it to have been gout; to me, however, this opinion has not the slightest foundation.