Lost_Warrior Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Drinking radioactive water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Saturnism? You just couldn't say 'lead poisioning', could you? Is it against your religion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Saturnism? You just couldn't say 'lead poisioning', could you? Is it against your religion? Well, my priest says Χρόνος (Chronos) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Saturnism? You just couldn't say 'lead poisioning', could you? Is it against your religion? Well, my priest says Χρόνος (Chronos) . What's Chronos got to do with it? Let that pass. You'll probably answer in Urdu. Just get on with some arcane, eclectic, and esoteric disease - without going to the dictionary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Salve iterum! Hippocratic Medicine worked mainly by balancing the opposites, something like the Ying and Yang stuff: This effect is delivered: "by exertion, by sitting still, by besmearing the body with potter's clay, by a scanty diet, and that taken once a day in the case of one accustomed to two meals, by drinking little and that only after the consumption of whatever food is to be taken, also by rest after food ... a vomit immediately after the meal ". and its opposite: "by increasing the length of the walk, more food and drink; by moving about after the meal; by frequently drinking during the meal... a vomit ... later" Of which pair of opposites was AC Celsus talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 (edited) Shingles? Bell's Palsy? Diabetes? BeriBeri? Malaria? Lead Poisoning? Edited October 1, 2007 by Gaius Octavius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Shingles? Bell's Palsy? Diabetes? BeriBeri? Malaria? Lead Poisoning? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope. Answers are better one by one. Lady A is going to blow the whistle! A clue... it's a couple of opposite conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 *shudders to say it* Constipation and diarrhea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hot and cold flashes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 *shudders to say it* Constipation and diarrhea? Bonum responsum, GM! Here's the whole quotation (AC Celsus, De Medicina, Liber I, Ch. XXX-XXXI: Alvum adstringit labor, sedile, creta figularis corpori inlita, cibus inminutus, et is ipse semel die adsumptus ab eo, qui bis solet; exigua potio neque adhibita, nisi cum cibi quis, quantum adsumpturus est, cepit, post cibum quies. The bowels are confined by exertion, by sitting still, by besmearing the body with potter's clay, by a scanty diet, and that taken once a day in the case of one accustomed to two meals, by drinking little and that only after the consumption of whatever food is to be taken, also by rest after food. Contra solvit aucta ambulatio atque esca potusque, motus, qui post cibum est, subinde potiones cibo inmixtae. Illud quoque scire oportet, quod ventrem vomitus solutum conprimit, compressum solvit; itemque conprimit is vomitus, qui statim post cibum est, solvit is, qui tarde supervenit. On the contrary they are rendered loose: by increasing the length of the walk, more food and drink; by moving about after the meal; by frequently drinking during the meal. This too should be recognized, that a vomit confines the bowels when relaxed, and relaxes them when costive: again, a vomit immediately after the meal confines the bowels, later it relaxes them. Your turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Okay, here goes ... Danger of death is at hand: if there is fever in addition, if there is inflammation of the liver or of the parts over the heart or of the stomach, if excessive thirst, if the affection is prolonged; if the stools are varied and passed with pain... ;and this disease carries off mostly children up to the age of ten; other ages bear it more easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Pleurosis? (Pluresy?) How do you spell that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Pleurosis? (Pluresy?) How do you spell that? No ma'am ... no matter which way you do spell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Juvenile Diabetes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Juvenile Diabetes? NYET! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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