CLASSICAL CORNER
Dec 02, 2021
4 minutes
“I will spue thee out of my mouth” – Revelations 3.16
Not the most attractive topic, so I’ll try not to go on ad nauseam.
Prompted by newspaper/website reports over the last few years of British women suffering from perpetual vomiting: Rebecca Griffiths, Stephanie Horner, Jayde Pitt, Christina Smith – see (e.g.) BBC News, 25 Jan 2018.
Doctors have a name for it – Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome – but not a cure, only desperate palliatives.
Various tomb paintings show ancient Egyptians copiously vomiting; cf. Dean Martindale’s (aka Jimmy Dunn) website illustrated essay. Some consider this ritualistic, others satirical, still others as mere realism, the result of “one, vv952-3).
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