Haemorrhoids

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).