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An eye disease text (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
eyes
Jews
medicine
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Jewish philosophers and scholars

Text
Babylonian Talmud, Aboda Zara 28b:
Mar Samuel went and taught: It is permitted to treat a runny eye with antimony on the shabbat. What is (the reason)? Because the sinews of the eye are attached to the projections (lit. fingers) of the ‘heart’ (internal anatomy). What (is it)? Rab Judah said, for example: a discharge, a squeezing, blood, tears, and heat. At the beginning of the pain, and excluding the end of the sickness and the brightening of the eye (= increased sightedness), (it is) not (permitted to treat on the shabbat).

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Babylonian Talmud, Aboda Zara 28b

Bibliography

Geller 1991, 105-106Geller, Mark J. “Akkadian Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: D. Cohn-Sherbock (ed.). A Traditional Quest. Essays in honour of Louis Jacobs. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 114. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1991, 102-112.

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Amar Annus


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