Medica sacra, or, short expositions of the most important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / by Thomas Shapter.

  • Shapter, Thomas.
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.

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    raissionibus serpit. Me\as colore ab hoc differt, quia niger est, et umbrae similis, csetera padem sunt. AevKtj habet quid- dam simile aOt^w sed .magis albida est, et altius decendit; in eaque albi pili sunt et lanugini similes. Omnia haec serpunt sed in aliis celerius, in aliis tardius. Alphos et Melas in quibusdam variis temporibus orientur et disiuunt. Leuce quern occu- pavit, non facile dimittit. The description of the tubercular ele- phantiasis is equally succinct and true. To give then a just idea of those diseases which are called Berat by Moses, and by ourselves Leprae, it will be necessary to detail briefly their history, as far as the present improved state of science will permit. The first variety, the Leprae Alphoides of Willan, the Berat Boak of the Hebrews, is as the Greeks have described it, the mildest