In this book, Rosner, a hematologist and rabbinic scholar, has provided us with a highly readable survey of the many medical matters mentioned in the Old Testament and the Talmud. The volume is a short, well-organized, and valuable introduction to a subject now deeply embedded in a vast ...
Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections From Classical Jewish Sources In this book, Rosner, a hematologist and rabbinic scholar, has provided us with a highly readable survey of the many medical matters mentioned in the Old Testament and the Talmud. The volume is a short, well-...
In particular, loss of sensation is not mentioned. Dr. Cochrane draws attention to the fact that the phrase “a leprosy” is used a number of times suggesting that the word was recognized as a group of conditions (e.g., vv. 8, 12). The regulations of uncleanliness for these patients ...
At the same time, folk medicine in the home and village continued uninterrupted, supporting numerous wandering and settled herbalists. Among these were the wise-women, who prescribed herbal remedies often along with spells and enchantments. It was not until the late Middle Ages that women who wer...
trained from their earliest years to regard urine as a mere waste product, the thought of using it for its healing powers may seem shocking. Yet urine has long played an important role in the holistic medical traditions of societies all over the world, and is even mentioned in the Ebers Me...
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Hitler was first specifically mentioned in theJournalin 1935,in an article by Michael M. Davis, a noted American health expert and reformer, and his collaborator Gertrud Kroeger, a leading German nurse. Yet between this article and 1944, when Nazi war crimes were first explicitly acknowledgedin ...
This medical fact is mentioned twice in the story. There would be no “getting back on his feet.” And that was fine with David. He simply wrote a blank check and said “You shall eat bread at my table continually.” But today, giving blank checks makes us nervous, so we rationalize...
in the East Han Book written inad25–220 during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Chinese concept of inheritance is also mentioned in some old literature; for example, the bookZhu Shi Yi Shu. In it, Jing Xue Ben says that children are similar to parents because theirjing(essence) andxue(blood...
case it was wrong to try to subvert God's holy will by interfering with the natural course of events. It was God who caused illness. He was responsible for cures just as he was responsible for death. Even church law mentioned, in passing, that diseases were attributable to God, for ...