Chaldean magic : its origin and development / translated from the French ; with considerable additions by the author, and notes by the editor. By François Lenormant.

  • François Lenormant
Date:
[1877]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chaldean magic : its origin and development / translated from the French ; with considerable additions by the author, and notes by the editor. By François Lenormant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/456 page 6
    Spirit of the heavens, conjure it! Spirit of the earth, conjure it! 10 ‘ Painful disease of the bowels, the infirmity which makes gloomy and cuts,’ the never-ceasing infirmity, the infirmity of the veins, the infirmity which does not go away, the malignant infirmity, Spirit of the heavens, conjure it! Spirit of the earth, conjure it! 11 That which acts in the mouth, the poison noxious to the voice,^ the expectoration of the consumption which noxiously prostrates,'* scrofula, pustules, falling off of the nails, purulent eruptions, inveterate tetters, shingles causing pits and scars,^ leprosy covering the skin, food which reduces the body of man to a skeleton, food which eaten is returned again, liquids which make the drinker swell, fatal poison which does not . . . the earth, the pestilential wind which comes from the desert and returns not. Spirit of the heavens, conjure it! Spirit of the earth, conjure it! 12 The frost which makes the earth to shiver, the excess of heat which makes the skin of man to crack, evil destiny .... ‘ Untranslated by Sayce. ^ In the Assyrian version: “the colic disease.” Is this a form of cutaneous malady in which the skin is hardened and cracks into sores?—Ed. ^ In the Assyrian version; “The poisonous consumption which in the mouth malignantly ascends.” ^ Literally, the sputa or effete matter cast off by the lungs in mucus in advanced stages of the disease. * This qualification is added by the Assyrian version. Herpetic maladies. See the Eleventh Tablet of the Izdubar Series, Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch., Vol. 111. part ii. p. 576, and Vol. IV. part i. pp. 6y.— Ed, ® Here is a word still untranslateable.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3