“I am about to discuss the disease called ‘sacred’. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine orgin is due to men’s inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character”
“I am about to discuss the disease called ‘sacred’. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine orgin is due to men’s inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character”
--Hippocractic treatise on epilepsy