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Talmudic medical recipes (15)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


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medicine
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Jewish philosophers and scholars

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The top of the sack corresponds to the Akkadian rēš marti ‘top of the gall bladder’. The gall bladder disease symptom is well-attested in Akkadian medical texts. The ‘dove’s excrement’ is a Deckname, as well as the use of linen rags in summer and cotton rags in winter. One of the ingredients mrtkˀ is probably cognate to Akkadian maštakal, one of the commonest ingredients of Akkadian medical recipes.

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69b:
For the top of the sack he should take acacia and aloe juice and white-lead and silver dross and an amulet-full of phyllon and the excrement of doves and tie it all up in linen rags in the summer or in cotton rags in the winter. Alternatively, let him drink strong wine well diluted.

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Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69b

Bibliography

Geller 2000, 27-28Geller, Mark J. “An Akkadian Vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: S. Kottek and M. Horstmanshoff (eds.). From Athens to Jerusalem. Medicine in Hellenized Jewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing 2000, 13-32.

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Amar Annus


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