https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2008.64

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

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2008)
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G. Squillace
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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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Squillace, G. (2008). Inscriptions of Sanationes from Sanctuaries of god Asclepius. Miraculous recoveries of rheuma diseases. Reumatismo, 60(1), 64–72. https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2008.64

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