Kynanthropy: canine madness in Byzantine late antiquity.

Those afflicted bark like dogs, scramble on all fours and loiter around graveyards – canine madness, referred to as kynanthropy, was an illness concept in its own right in the medicine of late antiquity. At roughly the same time as the medical description produced by Aëtius of Amida, the Syrian chro...

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Published in:	History of Psychiatry Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 318 - 332
Main Author:	Metzger, Nadine
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Sep2015
Subjects:	Lycanthropy (Delusions) Demoniac possession Aetius, of Amida, ca. 502-575 John, Bishop of Ephesus, ca. 507-586 Melancholy History of mental illness
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