FROM SMITH’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1884)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1884) — public domain, printed whole.

[MEDICINE]

FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- Often sent as punishment

De 28:21; Joh 5:14

- Often brought from other countries

De 7:15

- Often through Satan

1Sa 16:14-16; Job 2:7

- Regarded as visitations

Job 2:7-10; Ps 38:2,7

- Intemperance a cause of

Ho 7:5

- Sins of youth a cause of

Job 20:11

- Over-excitement a cause of

Da 8:27

- Were many and divers

Mt 4:24

- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

. Ague

Le 26:16

. Abscess

2Ki 20:7

. Atrophy

Job 16:8; 19:20

. Blindness

Job 29:15; Mt 9:27

. Boils and blains

Ex 9:10

. Consumption

Le 26:16; De 28:22

. Demoniacal possession

Mt 15:22; Mr 5:15

. Deafness

Ps 38:13; Mr 7:32

. Debility

Ps 102:23; Eze 7:17

. Dropsy

Lu 14:2

. Dumbness

Pr 31:8; Mt 9:32

. Dysentery

2Ch 21:12-19; Ac 28:8

. Emerods

De 28:27; 1Sa 5:6,12

. Fever

De 28:22; Mt 8:14

. Impediment speech

Mr 7:32

. Itch

De 28:27

. Inflammation

De 28:22

. Issue of blood

Mt 9:20

. Lameness

2Sa 4:4; 2Ch 16:12

. Leprosy

Le 13:2; 2Ki 5:1

. Loss of appetite

Job 33:20; Ps 107:18

. Lunacy

Mt 4:24; 17:15

. Melancholy

1Sa 16:14

. Palsy

Mt 8:6; 9:2

. Plague

Nu 11:33; 2Sa 24:15,21,25

. Scab

De 28:27

. Sunstroke

2Ki 4:18-20; Isa 49:10

. Ulcers

Isa 1:6; Lu 16:20

. Worms

Ac 12:23

- Children subject to

2Sa 12:15; 1Ki 17:17

- FREQUENTLY

. Loathsome

Ps 38:7; 41:8

. Painful

2Ch 21:15; Job 33:19

. Tedious

De 28:59; Joh 5:5; Lu 13:16

. Complicated

De 28:60,61; Ac 28:8

. Incurable

2Ch 21:18; Jer 14:19

- Physicians undertook the cure of

Jer 8:22; Mt 9:12; Lu 4:23

- Medicine used for curing

Pr 17:22; Isa 1:6

- Art of curing, defective

Job 13:4; Mr 5:26

- God often entreated to cure

2Sa 12:16; 2Ki 20:1-3; Ps 6:2; Jas 5:14

- Not looking to God in, condemned

2Ch 16:12

- THOSE AFFLICTED WITH

. Anointed

Mr 6:13; Jas 5:14

. Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by

Mr 6:56; Ac 5:15

. Often divinely supported

Ps 41:3

. Often divinely cured

2Ki 20:5; Jas 5:15

- Illustrative of sin

Isa 1:5