Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 54:215 (Jul 1897)
Article: Further Studies On The Bloody Sweat Of Our Lord.
Author: W. W. Keen

BSac 54:215 (July 1897) p. 469

Further Studies On The Bloody Sweat Of Our Lord.

W. W. Keen

In the Baptist Teacher for October, 1890, and in a fuller paper in the Baptist Quarterly Review for April, 1892, I published an article on “The Bloody Sweat of our Lord,” as viewed from a medical standpoint. Since that time I have consulted a number of additional authorities and have gained from these a wider knowledge of the facts. It gives me, therefore, great pleasure, at the request of the Baptist Ministerial Conference of Philadelphia, to lay before you some of these additional facts.1 I have selected only a very few, because it would be burdensome and also useless to attempt to quote, or even give a résumé of, the exceedingly extensive literature on the subject of bloody sweat, stigmatization, chromathidrosis, chromidrosis, chromocrinie, and other similar terms which are used to indicate varieties of this curious condition.

Those who desire to pursue further studies in the matter are recommended, for a more exhaustive bibliography than in the present and my former papers, to consult the literature gathered together under these headings in the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General’s Library, United States Army, not only in the published volumes, but in the supplementary volumes soon to appear.

Of the references obtained since my first paper, the most complete and satisfactory are the following: —

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Fox (T. C). On two cases of chromidrosis in which a blue-black pigment exuded from the skin of the circtim-orbital regions. Trans. Clinical Society, London, 1881, 14:211–221, 1 pl.

Leroy (de Méricourt). Mémoire sur la Chromidrose ou Chromocrinie Cutanée. Suivi de Petude microscopique et chimique de la substance colorante de la chromidrose, par le Dr. C. Robin, et d’une note sur le meme sujet, par le Dr. Ordonēz. Ann. d’Oculist, Brux., 1863, Vol. 1. p. 5.

Duffy (P.). A case of Chromidrosis. North Carolina Med. Jl., Wilmington, 1883, 12:260.

Babesieu (V.). Ueber die Bakterien des roten Schweisses. Centralbl. f. d. med. Wissensch., Berlin, 1882, 20:146–148.

Béshier. Rapport sur l’état d’une malade addressée à la Société comme atteinte de Chromidrose, au nom d’une commission speciale. L’Union Méd., Paris, 1861, 11:82.

Koch. Die Bluterkrankheit in ihrer Varianten, Deutsche Chirurgie, Lief. 12.

Wilson. Diseases of the Skin, Philadelphia, 1868, pp. 711-712.

McCall Anderson. Treatment of Diseases of the Skin: an analysis of eleve...