TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuropsychiatry
T2 - A synthesis of clinical and scientific fields for disorders of mind and body
AU - Looi, Jeffrey C.L.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from which it originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. Hippocrates (F. Adams On the Sacred Disease)1
AB - It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from which it originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. Hippocrates (F. Adams On the Sacred Disease)1
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014417753&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1039856216673447
DO - 10.1177/1039856216673447
M3 - Editorial
SN - 1039-8562
VL - 24
SP - 523
EP - 524
JO - Australasian Psychiatry
JF - Australasian Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -