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Magicians, Theologicans and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine and Folklore As Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa »

Authors: H. J. Zimmels
ISBN-13: 9780765759719, ISBN-10: 0765759713
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: H. J. Zimmels

Book Synopsis

This book gathers together the lore surrounding folk medicine, derived from rabbinic responsa of the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries. Dr. Zimmels has collected rabbinic opinions about various issues related to medicine and healing, including dentistry, obstetrics, the causes of disease, and folk remedies.

	Preface
	Introduction	1
I	Notes on the Education of Doctors and on their Social Status. Evolution of Medicine	13
II	Physicians, Leeches, and Quacks	27
III	Some Remarks on Anatomy, Physiology, and Bodily Defects	38
IV	Obstetrics	60
V	Theories of the Causation and Character of Disease	78
VI	Some Notes on Disease	95
VII	Therapeutics	112
VIII	Remedies	125
IX	Surgery	150
App	Some Notes on Hospitals, Infirmaries, and similar Institutions	165
	Notes	168
	Bibliography	271
	List of Abbreviations	283
	Glossary	285
	Index	289