Philoctetes' wound
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
plague · ulcers · wound · envenomed foot · foot · gnawing disease · grave sickness · infection · maimed foot · pus-filled limb
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Philoctetes
Philoctetes' wound is the painful serpent-inflicted disease in his foot that caused his abandonment and recurring agony.
Neoptolemus:
Philoctetes:
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Aphorisms
Open sores discussed with prognostic and healing implications
Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.
In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily healed.
When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.