Hippocrates comments on the "sacred" disease declaring that it is no more sacred than other diseases. He stresses the importance of the disease having no relation with the divine whatsoever, but instead being purely of human origin. The author of On the Sacred Disease argues that even the most mysterious of diseases was still of natural cause and not of divine origin.
本书创作于公元前400年,关于作者是否为古希腊医师希波克拉底仍存争议,但它被公认为是记录描述人类癫痫的第一本书。作者强调这种“神圣”的疾病与“神”、“圣”毫无关系,而只是关乎人体器官,并且作者相信所谓“神秘的疾病”绝大多数都是自然引发的。
On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written in 400 BCE. The authorship of this piece can not be confirmed and is therefore regarded as dubious. The treatise is thought to contain one of the first recorded observations of epilepsy in humans. The author explains these phenomena by the flux of the phlegm flowing from the brain into the veins rather than assigning them a divine origin. This turn from a supernatural to a naturalistic explanation is considered a major break in the history of medicine.
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