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<p> '''''fluks''''' ( πυρετὸς καὶ δυσεντερία , <i> '''''puretós kaı́ dusenterı́a''''' </i> , literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of [[Publius]] was afflicted in [[Malta]] ( Acts 28:8 ). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, <i> Pract. of [[Medicine]] </i> , II, 841). It is also prevalent in [[Palestine]] at certain seasons, and in [[Egypt]] its mortality was formerly about 36 percent. Its older name was due to the d ischarge of blood from the intestine. Sometimes portions of the bowel become gangrenous and slough, the condition described as affecting [[Jehoram]] ( 2 Chronicles 21:19 ). There seems to have been an epidemic of the disease at the time of his seizure ( 2 Chronicles 21:14 , 2 Chronicles 21:15 ), and in the case of the king it left behind it a chronic ulcerated condition, ending in gangrene. Somewhat similar conditions of chronic intestinal ulceration following epidemic dysentery I have seen in persons who had suffered from this disease in India. </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55202" /> == | |||
<p> See Dysentery. </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1778" /> == | |||
<p> '''''fluks''''' ( πυρετὸς καὶ δυσεντερία , <i> '''''puretós kaı́ dusenterı́a''''' </i> , literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of [[Publius]] was afflicted in [[Malta]] ( Acts 28:8 ). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, <i> Pract. of [[Medicine]] </i> , II, 841). It is also prevalent in [[Palestine]] at certain seasons, and in [[Egypt]] its mortality was formerly about 36 percent. Its older name was due to the d ischarge of blood from the intestine. Sometimes portions of the bowel become gangrenous and slough, the condition described as affecting [[Jehoram]] ( 2 Chronicles 21:19 ). There seems to have been an epidemic of the disease at the time of his seizure ( 2 Chronicles 21:14 , 2 Chronicles 21:15 ), and in the case of the king it left behind it a chronic ulcerated condition, ending in gangrene. Somewhat similar conditions of chronic intestinal ulceration following epidemic dysentery I have seen in persons who had suffered from this disease in India. </p> | |||
==References == | |||
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<ref name="term_55202"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/bloody+flux Bloody Flux from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_1778"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/bloody+flux Bloody Flux from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
</references> | |||
Revision as of 17:50, 8 October 2021
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [1]
See Dysentery.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
fluks ( πυρετὸς καὶ δυσεντερία , puretós kaı́ dusenterı́a , literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of Publius was afflicted in Malta ( Acts 28:8 ). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, Pract. of Medicine , II, 841). It is also prevalent in Palestine at certain seasons, and in Egypt its mortality was formerly about 36 percent. Its older name was due to the d ischarge of blood from the intestine. Sometimes portions of the bowel become gangrenous and slough, the condition described as affecting Jehoram ( 2 Chronicles 21:19 ). There seems to have been an epidemic of the disease at the time of his seizure ( 2 Chronicles 21:14 , 2 Chronicles 21:15 ), and in the case of the king it left behind it a chronic ulcerated condition, ending in gangrene. Somewhat similar conditions of chronic intestinal ulceration following epidemic dysentery I have seen in persons who had suffered from this disease in India.
