The disease of the apostle Paul of Tarsus: psychological, ophtalmic or neurological?
The biblical character Paul of Tarsus claimed to suffer some disease: “You know that because of a disease of the body I announced the gospel to you at the beginning […] For the test that my body had […]” (Galatians 4.13-14). His first clinical frame coincided with his conversion and subsequently pre...
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Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
2022
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| Online Access: | http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/expemed/article/view/5375 |
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| Summary: | The biblical character Paul of Tarsus claimed to suffer some disease: “You know that because of a disease of the body I announced the gospel to you at the beginning […] For the test that my body had […]” (Galatians 4.13-14). His first clinical frame coincided with his conversion and subsequently presented symptoms related to Parkinson’s disease or parkinsonism. Due to this condition, he suffered motors inconveniences as tremor, rigidity, postural instability, weakness as well as non-motors as cognitive changes, and visual and auditory hallucinations, who determined several diagnoses between ophthalmological, neurological, psychiatric, psychological, sociological, and surgical, who tried to come up with a theory to explain his pathology. |
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