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
in the texts
Philoctetes
Philoctetes' wound is the painful serpent-inflicted disease in his foot that caused his abandonment and recurring agony.
It was here, child bred of the man who was the noblest of the Greeks, Neoptolemus son of Achilles, that I exposed long ago the native of Malis, Poeas’ son, on the express command of the two chieftains to do so, because his foot was all running with a gnawing disease.
I am he whom the two marshalls and the Cephallenian king shamelessly hurled to this solitude which you see, when I was wasting with a fierce disease, stricken by the savage bite of the murderous serpent.
How could he go far afield when his foot is maimed by that old plague?
Aphorisms
Open sores discussed with prognostic and healing implications
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.
Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.