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Talmudic medical recipes (16)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


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Jewish philosophers and scholars

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‘Hip disease’ suggests a parallel to Akkadian qablu ‘waist, hips, loins’ which feature in medical symptoms. Although parallels are not precise, kidney disease and urinary problems are often associated in Akkadian texts with ‘hip disease’.

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69b:
For hip disease let him take a pot of fish brine and rub it sixty times round one hip and sixty times round the other.

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Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69b

Bibliography

Geller 2000, 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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