Stick pricking the innards (1)

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Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 13:
If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, and he defecates blood, he will die. If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, and he throws up dark blood, towards the second or third day he will die. If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, he is constipated, he will die.

BAM 216 29’:
If a man has piercing pain and it stings him like a thorn, it is the Hand of a Ghost.

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.

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BAM 216 29’
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 13
Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.72

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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