If a man’s testicle contains pus (1)

Text
Yebamoth 75b records a story about a man climbing a palm tree (dyqlˀ) who was injured by a thorn in his testicles, and his (semen) came out (consequently) like a thread of pus (kḥwṭ smwglˀ), but he still bore children. Mar Samuel (later) wrote to Rab about this case, doubting the patrimony of the man’s children. The symptom, however, is known already in Akkadian medicine, in a therapeutic text which reads, ‘if a man’s testicle contains pus’.

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Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth 75b

Bibliography

Mark Geller

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