Inscriptions of Sanationes from Sanctuaries of god Asclepius. Miraculous recoveries of rheuma diseases

Autor: Squillace G
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Reumatismo, Vol 60, Iss 1, Pp 64-72 (2011)
ISSN: 2240-2683
0048-7449
DOI: 10.4081/reumatismo.2008.64
Popis: Inscriptions of Sanationes from Sanctuaries of god Asclepius, testifying to the gratitude of patients to the divinity, present a situation, albeit fragmentary, of main diseases which physicians thought incurable or hardly curable. Sterility, calvities, worms, paralysis, as well as clinical disorders caused by rheuma appear, along with gout/podagra, in many inscriptions too. To counter them, patients asked for the intervention of Asclepius.
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