FOOTNOTES:
[127] Matthew, Chap. xvii. v. 15 and 18.
[128] Luke, Chap. ix. v. 39, &c.
[129] Matthew, Chap. iv. v. 24.
[130] De morbo sacro.
[131] See influence of the sun and moon, Chap. i. and ii.
[132] See Celsus, Lib. iii. Cap. xxiii. & Cael. Aurelian, Lib. i. Cap. 4.
[133] Account of poisons, ed. 3. introduction.
[134] Plin. hist. nat. Lib. xvi. §. ult.
CHAPTER XI.
The issue of blood in a woman.
Saint Matthew relates, that “Christ, by his word alone, cured a woman who had been diseased with an issue of blood for twelve[135] years.”
And here arises a question, concerning the nature of this disease. But as the words in the Greek are γυνὴ ἁιμοῤῥοȣσα, I am of opinion, that it was a flux of blood from the natural parts, which Hippocrates[136] calls ῥόον ἁἱματώδη, and observes, that it is necessarily tedious. Wherefore having been exhausted by it for twelve years, may justly be said to be incurable by human art.