Jewish medicine

Jewish medicine is medical practice of the Jewish people, including writing in the languages of both Hebrew and Arabic.
28% of Nobel Prize winners in medicine have been Jewish, although Jews comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population.

There are no extant texts of ancient medicine, as a first subject, of Hebrew origin. There was no medicine distinctly Jewish and instead Jewish practitioners had adopted Greek and later Graeco-Roman knowledge as practice.

Up until the time of King Chizkiyahu (his reign being dated to approximately 2,500 y.a.), a text - Sefer Refuot ("The Book of Remedies") was composed and used extensively for at least 300 years until King Chizkiyahu's time.

"...when a person became ill, he would follow what was written in "The Book of Remedies," and be healed. As a result, people's hearts were not humbled before Heaven because of illness. - Rashi'"

It has been recorded of in the Babylonian Talmud twice, and the baraita.

In the time of the New Testament the person acting as a physician was as much about healing the soul as the body. Apostolic healing is claimed to have occurred where-by people are thought to have been healed by miracles, in the same vien as Jesus of Nazareth who healed the sick by miracles also, and even raised a man from the dead.

Osler refers to St. Luke (practicing in the 1st century ) as our great colleague, and as a Physician, stating that he had some degree of science in his practice, although not like Hipppocrates "nor even of a scientifically trained contemporary of Dioscorides".

Further Information: Medieval medicine of Western Europe

The Book of Remedies, the earliest medical text written in Hebrew, to Asaph the Jew, dates to the seventh or eighth century. The text comprises four parts; a story of the transmission of medicine from God to mankind, a medical survey, a Materia medica and a list of medical aphorisms. While there is no knowledge of the writer himself or where the text was written, it circulated widely in Jewish communities during the Medieval period, and it can be assumed that it was of great influence to Jewish practictioners during this time.

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