• 文章翻譯,  羅馬

    【翻譯】凱撒健康的醫學爭論

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    前言

    原文來自http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/05/15/julius-caesars-health-debate-reignited/
    作者:Kristina Killgrove

    長久以來,凱撒一直被認為患有癲癇,這篇文章主要是對於凱撒病症的研究提出新看法,順帶提到過去的各種推斷,不過因為缺乏第一手的診斷資料,目前所有的結論都是可能性的推測。

    文章沒有很長,但大多數的時間都在查醫學名詞跟症狀的前因後果,搞的我快崩潰,感謝友人李醫師不厭其煩地為我這醫學白癡解答各種愚蠢問題,不然真的會被這些症狀弄得暈頭轉向。
     

    Julius Caesar's Health Debate Reignited: Stroke Or Epilepsy?

    尤利斯‧凱撒的健康論戰:中風或癲癇?

     

    “He was of spare habit, had a soft and white skin, suffered from distemper in the head, and was subject to epileptic fits, a trouble which first attacked him, we are told, in Corduba.” — Plutarch’s Life of Caesar 17.2

    他的體型瘦削,皮膚白皙,患有腦疾和癲癇,偶爾會發作,據說第一次受到這種疾病侵襲是在哥多華。

    普魯塔克《希臘羅馬英豪列傳─凱撒17卷第二章》
    (註:此部分的翻譯參照席代岳所譯的版本。)

    Famous words from the Greek historian Plutarch have offered tantalizing clues to the causes of Julius Caesar‘s ill health prior to his assassination on the Ides of March 44 BC. But Plutarch was born long after Caesar’s death, and his writing in particular has been interpreted a number of ways over the past two millennia.  Caesar had migraine headaches. Or hypoglycemia. He had a tapeworm in his brain. Most commonly, he has been diagnosed with morbus comitialis, the Latin term for epilepsy.

    來自希臘史家普魯塔克所述的著名片段,為凱撒在BC44年三月被弑前健康不佳的原因提供了誘人的線索。但是普魯塔克在凱撒死後出生,他獨有的描述在過去二千年出現各種眾說紛紜的解釋─凱撒可能有偏頭痛或低血糖、腦中有絛蟲。最常見的是他被診斷患有morbus comitialis,此字為拉丁術語,即癲癇。

    • Tapeworm:絛蟲,一種寄生蟲,出現在腦部可能引起癲癇。
    • epilepsy:癲癇,典型的癲癇癥狀之一是痙攣,常伴隨僵直性、間接性的不隨意運動,也有不伴隨痙攣的發作類型。 另外、可能出現突然喪失意識、記憶,突然昏倒,四肢抽搐,口吐白沫,大聲喊叫等癥狀,癲癇發作大多數屬於暫時性,一般數分至數十分鐘即恢復如常人。但是癲癇具有反覆發作的特點,由此引發的後遺症甚至能造成智慧障礙。