| BELIEFS OF MODERN GREECE: A TRANSLATION OF LEO ALLATIUS’ DE GRAECORUM HODIE QUORUNDAM OPINATIONIBUS |
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Michael Psellus attributes to natural causes some child diseases like those which we, from continuous experience, see as caused by the Striges. This condition is indeed proper to newly generated bodies and young babies, and that is why many call it the Child Disease. But this particular form of epilepsy is due to a[n excess of] moisture in the body which affects the tissues around the brain. It is a meltdown resulting from the lack of interior matter which, when the solids are wasted away, collapses, and causes the death of the infant. Learned men know that this is explained by life: you pursue the inquiry further, partly lifting it towards higher meanings, partly tracing it down from the views of the ancients to the current popular opinions. Thus Psellus.
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