On the Sacred Disease
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On the Sacred Disease is an ancient Greek medical treatise traditionally attributed to Hippocrates that argues epilepsy has natural, physical causes rather than divine or supernatural origins.
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| On the Sacred Disease canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Sacred Disease Context triple: [Hippocrates, notableWork, On the Sacred Disease]
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Journal for Plague Lovers
"Journal for Plague Lovers" is a critically acclaimed 2009 album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, notable for using the last lyrics written by missing band member Richey Edwards.
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La Lepra
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La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
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Between Three Plagues
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On the Suffering of the World
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Sacred Disease Target entity description: On the Sacred Disease is an ancient Greek medical treatise traditionally attributed to Hippocrates that argues epilepsy has natural, physical causes rather than divine or supernatural origins.
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A.
Journal for Plague Lovers
"Journal for Plague Lovers" is a critically acclaimed 2009 album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, notable for using the last lyrics written by missing band member Richey Edwards.
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B.
La Lepra
La Lepra is the popular nickname of Argentine football club Newell's Old Boys, based in Rosario and known for its passionate fanbase and strong youth academy.
-
C.
La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
-
D.
Between Three Plagues
"Between Three Plagues" is a historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross that vividly reconstructs 16th-century Baltic life through the story of scholar and printer Balthasar Russow amid political and religious upheaval.
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E.
On the Suffering of the World
"On the Suffering of the World" is a philosophical essay by Arthur Schopenhauer that reflects his pessimistic view of human existence and the pervasive nature of suffering in life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Greek medical treatise ⓘ |
| addresses |
prognosis of epilepsy
ⓘ
symptoms of epilepsy ⓘ treatment of epilepsy ⓘ |
| affirms | physical causes of epilepsy ⓘ |
| approximateDate | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| argues | diseases have natural causes and are not sent by gods ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hippocratic Corpus ⓘ |
| audience |
educated lay readers in Classical Greece
ⓘ
physicians ⓘ |
| claims | epilepsy has natural causes ⓘ |
| criticizes |
magical healing practices
ⓘ
priests who attribute epilepsy to the sacred ⓘ |
| describes |
epilepsy as a chronic disease
ⓘ
epileptic seizures ⓘ |
| discipline | medicine ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
causal explanation of disease
ⓘ
observation-based medical reasoning ⓘ |
| field | history of medicine ⓘ |
| focusesOn | causes of epilepsy ⓘ |
| genre | medical literature ⓘ |
| hasTitleVariant | Peri hierēs nousou ⓘ |
| importance |
early critique of supernaturalism in medicine
ⓘ
foundational text in the study of epilepsy ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of secular medical thought
ⓘ
later medical views on epilepsy ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
brain as seat of disease
ⓘ
naturalistic explanation of disease ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| modernDisciplineCategory | history of neurology ⓘ |
| opposes | religious explanations of disease ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Hippocratic Corpus ⓘ |
| period | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance | naturalism in medicine ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| preservedIn | manuscript tradition of the Hippocratic Corpus ⓘ |
| rejects |
divine origin of epilepsy
ⓘ
supernatural explanations of epilepsy ⓘ |
| subdiscipline |
neurology
ⓘ
pathology ⓘ |
| subject | epilepsy ⓘ |
| supports | rational medicine ⓘ |
| tradition |
Hippocratic medicine
ⓘ
linked to:
Hippocratic medical tradition
|
| traditionalAuthor | Hippocrates ⓘ |
| workType | prose treatise ⓘ |
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