1958 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 244

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K. P. C. A. GRAMBERG

9. The translation of the Hebrew word zara'ath in the Greek word lepra was arbitrary. 10. Lepra in the sense of Hippocrates meant something scaly, itching and curable. 11. In the Middle Ages this leprous skindiseases were identified with the sickness of Job and with the disease of Lazarus, the figure in the parable of Jesus, from whom the Dutch name of these skindiseases was derived. 12. The H.D. of thosetimes was known under the name of elephantiasis Graecorum and did not belong to the group of different and variable leprosydiseases. 13. After the year of about 1600 the leprosy of the Middle-Ages disappears suddenly; probably as a result of better diagnosis and of the determining of different skindiseases as real entities, for instance: scorbut, ergotism, psoriasis, syphilis, frambösia etc. 14. In 1847 the Nordisk professors Danielssen and Boeck published a nows famous book about the Spedalsked or elephantiasis Graecorum also called lepra. This was the first real good description of the afterwards generally called disease of lepra. 15. The horror and fear of the man stricken with zara'ath or lepra in Old-Testamentical times and in the Middle Ages has been transferred by means of the name lepra (leprosy, melaatsheid) to the leprapatients (Hansenians) of to day. 16. The author pleads for dissociating the sickness or Hansen from the biblical words and conceptions, which are not identical at all. The purpose is to break down „the curtain of terror and fear" which still surrounds the patients with M. Hansen. 17. As long as the officials and the public opinion trie to expel and turn out these patients from the community it is impossible to treat them correctly. 18. The suggestion of the author is : a. that in the Bible the word zara'ath remains untranslated or — when this is impossible — to translate it as: „the stricken or defiled man"; b. to change the name of the M. Hansen from lepra in leontiasis and leontide. LITERATUUR 1. G. N. A. Ketting. Bijdrage tot de kermis der geschiedenis der lepra in Nederland. Proefschrift, 1922, blz. 20, 21. 2. Ketting z.b., blz. 18. 3. G. N. Münch. Die Zara'ath der hebraïschen Bibel (Monatsheffe für praktische Dermatologie No. 16) 1893, blz. 121. 4. Ed. Jeanselme. La Lèpre (1934) blz. 15. 5. Sitanala, Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Ned. Indië, jaargang 1937, blz. 2233 e.v. 6. D. C. Danielssen et C. W. Boeck. Traite de la Spedalsked ou Elephantiasis des Grècs (1847), blz. 38. 7. Hebra, geciteerd door G. Münch, z.b., blz. 54.

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