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...
| Publicado en: | History of Psychiatry Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 318 - 332 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2015
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