Infirmity

As infirmity (from Middle High German siechtuom 'disease', of faint , sick ',' sickly '- originally based mainly on serious or protracted illness - and related to suck in terms caused by "sucking demons" disease) refers to State of increasing exhaustion through a massive or irreversible disease process as well as through the use of external violence. The use of the term to denote the contagious state of lepers and occasionally (as siechtuom ) also to denote menstruation (bleeding) is also historical. Related to it is Siechtag (from Middle High German siechtac ) as an earlier term for illness or illness. Etymologically, shech is that with Engl. sick is sound-like for 'sick', related to disease and addiction .

history

In the past ( 11th to 18th centuries ) people who were sick were grouped together in infirmaries (also Kottenhäuser, Gutleutehouses) because they feared infection.

Nowadays, for example, Section 226 (1) No. 3 uses 2nd alt. of the German Criminal Code (StGB) ( serious bodily harm ) nor the concept of infirmity. According to this, infirmity is a chronic state of health with a duration that cannot be estimated and which, because of impairment of the general condition, results in frailty .

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Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th ed., Ed. by Walther Mitzka , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 707.
↑ Nabil Osman (ed.): Small lexicon of undergone words. Word extinction since the end of the 18th century. Munich 1971; 13th, unchanged edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-45997-8 , pp. 187 f.
^ Franz Willeke: The Pharmacopoeia of Arnoldus Doneldey. Philosophical dissertation Münster / Westphalia 1912 (= research and findings. Volume III / 5), p. 33.
↑ Thomas Bein (Ed.): Against all den suhtin. German Medical Texts of the High and Late Middle Ages: An Anthology. Stuttgart 1989 (= Helfant-Texte. Volume 10), p. 96.
↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 171 ( Siech , Siechtac , Siechunge ).
^ Tröndle / Fischer: StGB. Commentary , 53rd edition, Munich 2006, § 226 StGB, margin number 11 with further references.

[1] Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th ed., Ed. by Walther Mitzka , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 707.

[2] Nabil Osman (ed.): Small lexicon of undergone words. Word extinction since the end of the 18th century. Munich 1971; 13th, unchanged edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-45997-8 , pp. 187 f.

[3] Franz Willeke: The Pharmacopoeia of Arnoldus Doneldey. Philosophical dissertation Münster / Westphalia 1912 (= research and findings. Volume III / 5), p. 33.

[4] Thomas Bein (Ed.): Against all den suhtin. German Medical Texts of the High and Late Middle Ages: An Anthology. Stuttgart 1989 (= Helfant-Texte. Volume 10), p. 96.

[5] Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 171 ( Siech , Siechtac , Siechunge ).

[6] Tröndle / Fischer: StGB. Commentary , 53rd edition, Munich 2006, § 226 StGB, margin number 11 with further references.