[1] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   

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