Seeing the dead (1)

Text
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 28.71:
If ditto (= he suffers from a long illness and) he continually sees dead persons, ditto (= he will recover).

KAR 234.27 (Assyrian Ritual Text):
If a man sees dead persons from time to time …

Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.72:
Phrenitis: something like a thorn seems to be in the inward parts and to prick them. Loathing attacks the patient, he flees light and people, he loves the dark, and he is seizured by fear. The diaphragm swells outward, and is painful when touched. The patient is afraid, and he sees terrible things, frightful dreams, and sometimes the dead.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 28.71
Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.72
KAR 234.27 (Assyrian Ritual Text)

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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