On the Sacred Disease
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On the Sacred Disease is an ancient Greek medical treatise traditionally attributed to Hippocrates that argues epilepsy has natural, physical causes rather than divine or supernatural origins.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Greek medical treatise ⓘ |
| addresses |
prognosis of epilepsy
ⓘ
symptoms of epilepsy ⓘ treatment of epilepsy ⓘ |
| affirms | physical causes of epilepsy ⓘ |
| approximateDate | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| argues | diseases have natural causes and are not sent by gods ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hippocratic Corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| audience |
educated lay readers in Classical Greece
ⓘ
physicians ⓘ |
| claims | epilepsy has natural causes ⓘ |
| criticizes |
magical healing practices
ⓘ
priests who attribute epilepsy to the sacred ⓘ |
| describes |
epilepsy as a chronic disease
ⓘ
epileptic seizures ⓘ |
| discipline | medicine ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
causal explanation of disease
ⓘ
observation-based medical reasoning ⓘ |
| field | history of medicine ⓘ |
| focusesOn | causes of epilepsy ⓘ |
| genre | medical literature ⓘ |
| hasTitleVariant | Peri hierēs nousou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| importance |
early critique of supernaturalism in medicine
ⓘ
foundational text in the study of epilepsy ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of secular medical thought
ⓘ
later medical views on epilepsy ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
brain as seat of disease
ⓘ
naturalistic explanation of disease ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| modernDisciplineCategory | history of neurology ⓘ |
| opposes | religious explanations of disease ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Hippocratic Corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance | naturalism in medicine ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservedIn | manuscript tradition of the Hippocratic Corpus ⓘ |
| rejects |
divine origin of epilepsy
ⓘ
supernatural explanations of epilepsy ⓘ |
| subdiscipline |
neurology
ⓘ
pathology ⓘ |
| subject | epilepsy ⓘ |
| supports | rational medicine ⓘ |
| tradition | Hippocratic medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalAuthor | Hippocrates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | prose treatise ⓘ |
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