Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) MEDICA SACRA; OR, A COMMENTARY On the most remarkable DISEASES, Mentioned in the HOLY SCRIPTURES. By RICHARD MEAD, Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians at LONDON and EDINBURGH, and of the Royal Society, and Physician to his Majesty. Translated from the Latin, Under the AUTHOR’s Inspection, By THOMAS STACK, M.D.F.R.S. LONDON: Printed for J. BRINDLEY, late Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, in New Bond-street. M DCCLV. THE CONTENTS. _Memoirs of the life and writings of the learned author_ _The preface_ I. _The disease of_ Job page 1 II. _The leprosy_ 13 III. _The disease of king_ Saul 28 IV. _The disease of king_ Joram; Jehoram 34 V. _The disease of king_ Ezekias; Hezekiah 36 VI. _The disease of old age_ 38 VII. _The disease of king_ Nebuchadnezzar 57 VIII. _The paralysy, palsy_ 62 IX. _Of demoniacs_ 73 X. _Of lunatics_ 93 XI. _The issue of blood in a woman_ 103 XII. _Weakness of the back, with a rigidity of the spine back bone_ 104 XIII. _The bloody sweat of_ Christ 106 XIV. _The disease of_ Judas 108 XV. _The disease of king_ Herod 113 Πἁντα δοχιμἁζετε τὸ καλὸν κατἑχετε. _D. Paul. 1 Ep. ad Thessal. v. 21._ _Prove all things; hold fast that which is good._ BOOKS wrote by the late learned Dr. MEAD, and sold by J. BRINDLEY, Bookseller, in _New Bond Street_. ENGLISH PIECES, _viz._ I. A Mechanical Account of Poisons in several Essays, 4th Edition. Price 5s. 1747 II. A Discourse on the Plague, 9th Edit. Price 4s. 1744 III. ---- on the Small Pox and Measles; to which is annexed, a Treatise on the same Disease by the celebrated Arab. Phys. _Abubeker Rhazes_. Price 4s.