[lit-ideas] Philosophy of Health and Disease: The Aphorisms
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"Se's healed" (She's a whole, she's hale)
One can say that "She is healthy" does not implicate that she was ever ill.
Tom Cruise (being a Christian Scientist) is the expert here
Torgeir Fjeld
>Is disease a symptom of healing?
I think so, but one has to be careful with the implicatures.
I see that 'heal' is cognate with 'hale' and 'whole'. And I don't think
that, 'whole' at least has an implicature of previous disease.
From the OED
1300 Cursor M. 13863
Jesus there spake he with thJe healed man.
--- Here I would think it's a logical implication, rather than a cancellable
implicature, that the man (not Jesus) was previously ill. This is very
Christian, the idea of Jesus as the healer. The Greeks did not have that.
1597 SHAKES. 2 Hen. IV, I. ii. 167,
"I am loth to gall a new-heal'd wound."
Here the case is less controversial, because 'wound' logically implies some
sort of dis-ease (not at ease with something).
1831 A. KNOX Rem. II. 150
"To give evidence of a healed mind."
Here it is interesting to compare with a favourite adjective with Aristotle
(and indeed Grice in his article on "Semantic Multiplicity in Aristotle"
(Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1988).
'healthy' is indeed cognate with all this. And 'mens sana in corpore sano',
while stupid, is possibly true (if you are a dualist).
Aristotle was slightly confused that he did not know what was the basic
predicabilia for 'healthy' ('healthy' food? 'healthy life? healthy person,
healthy diet, healthy ... what?). Most Greeks were 'totalitarians', or holistic
(there you have again), in that they thought of the organism as a unity, so
this
idea of mens-sana-in-corpore-sano would be unGreek (and rather Latin, and
ironic, the first time it was uttered).
Then there's 'sound' which I think comes from L. sanus.
More quotes on 'healing' in the OED
1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. x. 8 <NOBR untrume.
1175 Lamb. Hom. 91 Heo weren iheled from alle untrumnesse.
1300 Cursor M. 13261 He..heild mani at war seke.
1325 Metr. Hom. 130 The prophet Helesius Of leper heled an hethen man.
1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Petrus 117 He heilys sek men And quyknyse dede.
1382 WYCLIF Luke iv. 23 Leeche, heele thi silf.
1400 MANDEVILLE (1839) vi. 69 The drye tree..The him of the fallynge euyll.
1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1066 How aungel Raphael helyd his kne.
1607 SHAKES. Timon II. i. 24, I..must not breake my backe, to heale his
finger.
1842 TENNYSON Morte d'Arthur 264 Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
1846 TRENCH Mirac. Introd. (1862) 20 Christ, healing a sick man with his
word.
1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xii. 10 Ys hyt alyfed to hælenne [c1160 Hatton G. to
hælen] on to hælum?
1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 342 <N ena dymnysse enim foxes geallan..hyt foxe.
1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Symon & Judas 32 Of fewire and parlesy, Vith word u
heilis.
1400 MANDEVILLE (1839) xi. 124 e Oyle.. Oyl of many sykenesses.
1450 tr. De Imitatione III. lv. 132 e heuenly leche of soules, at smytist &
helist.
1611 BIBLE Deut. xxxii. 39, I wound, and I heale.
1732 POPE Ep. Bathurst 234 As Poison heals, in just proportion us'd.
1827 KEBLE Chr. Y. Visit. Sick iii, As if one prayer could heal.
1503-4 in Pegge Curialia Misc. (1816) 127 For heling 3 seke folks 20. 0..for
heling 2 seke folks 13. 4.
1661 PEPYS Diary 13 Apr., I went to the Banquet-house, and there saw the
King heale.
1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. x. 1 æt ..hældun [c1160 Hatton G. helden] adle, and
ælce untrumnysse.
1205 LAY. 23072 For heo sculde mid haleweie helen [c1275 heale] his wunden.
1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. VI. xxi. (1495) 209 To kepe helthe and to heele
sykenesse.
1450 Golagros & Gaw. 882 Thai hynt of his harnese, to helyn his wound.
1590 SPENSER F.Q. III. v. 42 O foolish physick..That heales up one, and
makes another wound!
1676 WISEMAN Surg. (J.), A fontanel had been made in the same leg, which he
was forced to heal up.
1781 COWPER Expostulation 153 They saw distemper healed, and life restored.
1863 G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE Gladiators ix. (1864) 62 Mere scratches, skin
deep, and healed over now.
825 Vesp. Psalter cxlvii. 3 Se <NOBR ereste on heortan.
1000 Ags. Ps. (Spl.) xliii. 4 [xliv. 3] (Bosw.) Earm heora ne Earm .
1175 Lamb. Hom. 95 He ne com na to demane moncun..ac to helenne.
1205 LAY. 15871 if ich i wærc [a ruined wall] hæle.
1382 WYCLIF 2 Chron. vii. 14, I schal..ben mercyable to the synnes of hem,
and helyn their lond.
1535 COVERDALE 2 Kings ii. 22 So the water was healed.
1650 JER. TAYLOR Holy Living (1834) 190 Let it alone, and the thing will
heal itself.
1719 DE FOE Crusoe II. xii, Our ship was..healed of all her leaks.
1847 TENNYSON Princ. III. 49 Heal me with your pardon.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 173 Elch sinne..bute hit be here forgieue Eer mid
bote iheled. 1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 1724 e gastly woundes of syn Thurgh
penaunce may be heled. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) Gb, Sacramentes of
the
chirche: the whiche cureth, releueth & heleth all defautes. 1600 SHAKES.
A.Y.L. III. v. 117 Faster then his tongue Did make offence, his eye did heale
it
vp. 1720 OZELL Vertot's Rom. Rep. II. XIV. 348 Octavia, Antony's Wife and
Cæsar's Sister..at various Times, heal'd up their Breaches. 1849 MACAULAY
Hist.
Eng. II. 135 Something might have been done to heal the lacerated
feelings..of the Irish gentry. 1887 TREVELYAN in Times 7 Mar. 10/6 The breach
in our
ranks might be healed tomorrow.
a1375 Joseph Arim. 681 e arm helede aeyn hol to e stompe. a1400-50
Alexander 2817, I sall hele all in hast. 1530 PALSGR. 595/1 Whan thy wounde
begynneth to heale, it wyll ytche. 1606 SHAKES. Tr. & Cr. III. iii. 229 Those
wounds heale ill, that men doe giue themselues. 1803 Med. Jrnl. IX. 432 He
suffered the issues to heal. 1888 Gardening 11 Feb. 685/1 The incisions in
the
crowns soon heal over.
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