[Footnote 149: The epilepsy, or falling-sickness, of Mahomet
is asserted by Theophanes, Zonaras, and the rest of the
Greeks; and is greedily swallowed by the gross bigotry of
Hottinger, (Hist. Orient. p. 10, 11,) Prideaux, (Life of
Mahomet, p. 12,) and Maracci, (tom. ii. Alcoran, p. 762,
763.) The titles (the wrapped-up, the covered) of two
chapters of the Koran, (73, 74) can hardly be strained to
such an interpretation: the silence, the ignorance of the
Mahometan commentators, is more conclusive than the most
peremptory denial; and the charitable side is espoused by
Ockley, (Hist. of the Saracens, tom. i. p. 301,) Gagnier,
(ad Abulfedam, p. 9. Vie de Mahomet, tom. i. p. 118,) and
Sale, (Koran, p. 469 - 474.)]