Heracles and epilepsy: the sacred disease

Eduardo Orrego-GonzÁlez; Ana Peralta-GarcÍa; Leonardo Palacios-SÁnchez

doi:10.1590/0004-282X20200085

Heracles and epilepsy: the sacred disease

Título traducido de la contribución: Hércules y la epilepsia: la enfermedad sagrada

Eduardo Orrego-GonzÁlez, Ana Peralta-GarcÍa, Leonardo Palacios-SÁnchez

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La epilepsia es una de las enfermedades más temidas y terroríficas de la humanidad. Durante el periodo griego, recibió uno de sus muchos nombres, el de enfermedad sagrada. Hércules sirvió como una de las fuentes para la connotación divina que la epilepsia recibió en tiempos antiguos, debido a que fue uno de los semidioses más importantes de la mitología griega. Sin embargo, muchos autores atribuyeron las acciones de Hércules a convulsiones, incluyendo Hipócrates, quien describió la enfermedad sagrada en su “Corpus Hippocraticum”. Este artículo revisa algunas de las publicaciones sobre el mito y el contenido del texto de Hipócrates, en relación al conocimiento actual de la enfermedad.

Título traducido de la contribución	Hércules y la epilepsia: la enfermedad sagrada
Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)	660-662
Número de páginas	3
Publicación	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Volumen	78
N.º	10
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1590/0004-282X20200085
Estado	Publicada - oct. 1 2020

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