Medica sacra, or, short expositions of the most important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / by Thomas Shapter.
- Thomas Shapter
- Date:
- 1834
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Credit: Medica sacra, or, short expositions of the most important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / by Thomas Shapter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![larly rendered ; thus in Exodus, (') Their manna bred worms and stank:—kuI efe'^eo-e (TKwX'^icas, Kal eTTw^eai; and iu Deuteronomy Q when speaking of grapes, for the worm shall eat them, ori KaraCpar^cTai avra 6 (TkivXt]^; a quotation still more to the purpose, is that where Job says, (^) '* my flesh is clothed with worms and dust; 4>vp6Tai fiov to awfia ev aanpia oKuArjKwv; and it is further borne out by other Greek writers, using a totally different word when they speak of the intestinal worm. Thus Herodotus says of Pheretima, the mother of Arcesilaus, that she was Zmaa evXdwv e^e^eae, destrOycd alive by worms. Having said thus much, the obscurity of the text induces me not to prolong the discussion further. There are many other instances of special U) Chap. xvi. verse 20. (2) Chap, xxviii. verse 40. (3) Job vii. verse 5.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21450134_0187.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
