. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . , of the widespread tale ofthe Wandering Jew, which at first sightseems fabricated out of the whole cloth, butwhich in reality may be explained by citingexamples from neuropathology. On thissubject Dr. Henry Meige has just publisheda very curious work, of which we offer a briefre sum J: SVER I J ill ? ! A wit 1 I1 Ill I life if J|| Jt pS 1 in. 1 :ii 1 iPi HI D^^^^b ^^^=g^^ ^^H^-VH^ Ej^^^y^r-^g^y Fig. i. Ahasuerus. Fac-simile of an ancient Ger-man engraving (1648). We know the beginning of the history ofthe eternal wanderer Ca
. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . , of the widespread tale ofthe Wandering Jew, which at first sightseems fabricated out of the whole cloth, butwhich in reality may be explained by citingexamples from neuropathology. On thissubject Dr. Henry Meige has just publisheda very curious work, of which we offer a briefre sum J: SVER I J ill ? ! A wit 1 I1 Ill I life if J|| Jt pS 1 in. 1 :ii 1 iPi HI D^^^^b ^^^=g^^ ^^H^-VH^ Ej^^^y^r-^g^y Fig. i. Ahasuerus. Fac-simile of an ancient Ger-man engraving (1648). We know the beginning of the history ofthe eternal wanderer Cartophilus, Ahasuerus(Fig. 1), or Isaac Laquedem, according tothe country. It is stated by Matthew Paristhat this Cartophilus was porter of thePraetorium of Pontius Pilate; when Jesus Christ crossed the threshold of the door hereceived from Cartophilus a blow: Go on,Jesus, go faster. Why dost thou stop ?Jesus, turning, replied: I go, but thou, thoushalt await my second coming; thou shaltwalk without ceasing. According to an-other version, Ahasuerus is a large man. Fig. 2. The Wandering Jew, after the most an-cient engraving known (Munich Library). with flowing locks, a Jew by nationality anda cobbler by trade, who was present at thedeath of Jesus Christ, and who since thattime has always continued in life. What-ever be the origin, historians are at one inrepresenting the Wandering Jew as marchinghaphazard, traversing cities with rapidity,appearing now at Hamburg, now at Moscow,now at Paris, etc., but always with the sameaspect. The illustrators are not less unani-mous in representing the portraits after asingle model. Whether executed at Bautzenor at Epinal, in 1600 (Fig. 2) or in 1800, it isalways of Jewish type, clad in a long cloak,the beard and the hair curled, the eye sad 2 THE MEDICAL AGE. (Fig. 3), the brow painfully contracted, etc.—of course with minor differences, due tothe location or the imagination of the de-signer.
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