haemorrhoids
 痔核;痔疾


 Haemorrhoids
    or Emerods, bleeding piles known to the ancient Romans as
    mariscae, but more probably malignant boils of an infectious and
    fatal character. With this loathsome and infectious disease the
    men of Ashdod were smitten by the hand of the Lord. This
    calamity they attributed to the presence of the ark in their
    midst, and therefore they removed it to Gath (1 Sam. 5:6-8). But
    the same consequences followed from its presence in Gath, and
    therefore they had it removed to Ekron, 11 miles distant. The
    Ekronites were afflicted with the same dreadful malady, but more
    severely; and a panic seizing the people, they demanded that the
    ark should be sent back to the land of Israel (9-12; 6:1-9).