Orrego-GonzÁlez Eduardo, Peralta-GarcÍa Ana, Palacios-SÁnchez Leonardo
Universidad del Rosario, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neuroscience Research Group NEUROS, Bogotá, Colombia.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2020 Oct;78(10):660-662. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20200085.
Epilepsy is one of the most dreaded and terrifying human afflictions. One of the many names it has received was Sacred Disease, during Greek times. Heracles served as a source of the divine connotation that epilepsy received in ancient times, as he was one of the most important demigods in Greek mythology. However, several authors have attributed Heracles' actions to a seizure, including Hippocrates, who described the sacred disease on his "Corpus Hippocraticum." This paper reviewed some of the publications on the myth and content of the text of Hippocrates, in relation to the current knowledge of the disease.
癫痫是最可怕、最令人恐惧的人类疾病之一。在希腊时期，它有诸多名称，其中之一是“神圣疾病”。赫拉克勒斯是癫痫在古代所具有的神圣内涵的一个来源，因为他是希腊神话中最重要的半神之一。然而，包括希波克拉底在内的几位作者都将赫拉克勒斯的行为归因于癫痫发作，希波克拉底在他的《希波克拉底文集》中描述了这种神圣疾病。本文回顾了一些关于希波克拉底文本的神话和内容的出版物，并将其与该疾病的当前知识联系起来。
