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By DR. MAURICE SPENCER JACOBS of Philadelphia.

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properties of sulphuric acid and al-
cohol. His "Canon" is a huge un-
wieldy storehouse of learning in
which the author tries to codify the
whole medical knowledge of ,his time
and tc( square his facts with the sys-

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In this brief sketch of the devel- tions removed—being examples of the tems of Galen and Aristotle. It was
opment of surgery among the Jews so-called prehistoric trephining which written in clear attractive style and
1 have endeavored to present an Sc- is supposed to have been performed became the fountain-head of author-
count mainly in chronological order, in cases of headache, epilepsy, etc. ity of the Middle Ages. He had a
of the chief events, discoverers, im- —and the ages of these relics is un- great reputation in his day, which
provers, and inventors in the art of known. But it is not at all probable he probably owed to the fact that he
was a clever practitioner. For ex-
surgery, as also of the principal that it extends to the time of the pyr- ample, the striking plates in a later
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them. Nile, when circumcision had been e
superiority.
must have known and practiced the
l
he
In the history of the development tablished as a religious rite and an
comfortable feeling that goes with • duty well don..
Hi pp ocratic method of treating spinal
in civilization of nations and peo- official system of medicine was in the
omities
by forcible reduction
r
ples, surgery almost necessarily pre- process of construction.
which was reintroduced by Calot in
The Papyrus Ebers, written 1552 1896. His recommendation of wine
cedes internal medicine with regard
to accurate observation of lesions of B. C.—that is at least a century be-
for Economical rronsportation
e the best dressing for wounds was
the human body and of their results. fore the exodus of the tsrae.htes--is very popular in Medieval practice.
Speculations about tumors and fluxes, a compilation of receipts and dives- He describes anthrax as "Persian
black bile and medical constitutions, tions for the treatment of various Fire," gave a good account of dia.
vital spirits and the doctrine of sig- diseases, many of which formulae it betel arid is said to have noticed the
natures did not much occupy the Among
refers to
as being
then
ancient.
these
is a short
section
on sweetish taste of diabetic urine. His
minds of men of old in their attempt I treatise on Anatomy has been reedited
to note and describe the signs of dif- tumors near the surface of the body, as late as 1903 by de Konig.
ferent forms of fractures and dislo- in which it is said: "If this tumor
Under Mohammedan rule, medicine
cations, the danger of wounds in dif- goes and comes under your finger,
ferent localities, the different forms trembling even when your hand is was more or less progressive, espe-
fatty tumor,' and cially in Spain. But in the rest of
of tumors, or the treatment of a cal- still, say, 'it is a
solos in the bladder or of a hernia. treat it with the knife, after which Europe it was substantially in the
Of the many remedies in the form of treat it as an open wound." From the condition in which it exists in bar-
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drugs, salves, embrocations and phis- Papyrus Ebers we learn that there barons tribes. With the rise of the
monkish orders the priests became
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the ancient medical books which have not priests, and the same may be in- Practitioners and all progress ceased.
(erred
from
the
statement
in
Genesis
The kings and the great nobles, in-
come down to us, hardly more than
cluding some of the bishops, resorted
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"Joseph
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L.
twenty are now in ordinary use. The
to Hebrew physicians who, during
ology and pathology are, his servants the physicians to embalm
ancient physiology
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t part, now considered his father, and the physicians em. the tenth and eleventh centuries were
as
the mos
for merely
being curious illustrations bolted Israel." The word in the text almost the only persons who possessed
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of human error; and it is only a pot. which is translated "physicians" is medical training or who wrote on
"rePhaile and the literal meaning of , medical subjects. "A Jewish physi
l ion of the anatomy and surgery that
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remains to us as an essential part of the word, as you know, is oa
it , was a sort of contra
I
the foundation of the art of medicine of wounds —1. e., surgeons. The em ,bend
. r.e-
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hairnets probably had a little more , band luxury." On account of his
it exists today.
phy.
'those
he
could
only be possessed by
e
I
anatomical
knowledge
than
th
our
posses-,
Sunday.
The earliest records in
Open Day, Night and
ose
capable of protecting him from
-
sion which relate to surgical opera.' sicians of the time; but the Egyp- , th
s; but both
lions come from Egypt. It is true , tians had a treatise on anatomy mobs and monk n rulers . Cat s ic
ammeda
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that human skulls have been found ! which, according to Manetho, was at. and Moh
belonging to the Neolithic or Polish•' tributed to Athathis, the son of ' sorted to him when anything like
scientific knowledge was required.
ed Stone Age, which have led port I Menes, who reigned 6421 B. C.
But surgery was for the most part
The few allusions to medicine abandoned to barbers, bathers, and
scattered through the books of the seventh sons, and thus fell into dis-
te These barbers and bathers,
1 Old Testament indicate that the gen-
eral belief was in accord with that
P 'considered to be of inferior
usually
found
among
savage
tribes—
repute
viz,, that most diseases are punish- caste, and an artisan would not take
meats inflicted by divine power, and an apprentice of a family of barbers,
spa- bathers, bath-keepers or butchers. I
to be ceremonies;
removed by from
sacrifices
and
cial
which
it fol. The operators were often peripatetic 1
lows that the priests were the chief and were subdivided into specialists.
medical men. But that there were For instance, one operated for her-
other physicians is probable from the nia, another for calculis, a third for
grimly sarcastic account of King cataract, etc., the knowledge being
g
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Asa. who in his disease sought not handed down from father to son, as
the Greeks.
to the Lord, but to the physicians , among
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their medical art and science and
one smite another with a stone, or
four-wheel brakes-102-pound conterbalanced crank-
with a fist, and he die not, ... then Jewish influence was at its height,
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shall he that smote him pay for the the religious persecutions began.
shaft.
JEWETT DE LUXE SEDAN
htihme First among these may be mentioned
aII; cause
or
mhei,
v ahnedaisehd"
thhoisrotui g
the exile from Montpelier, where
as
tlo"be
o of
Hebrew thought and learning had
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teaching of the subject of medicine.
The medicine of the Bible has been Still a few scholars remained, and
the subject of several learned essays, among them may be mentioned Dol-
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but it does appear that medicine was an Bellan, who was a distinguished
regularly studied among the Jews as surgeon at Carcasonne.
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it. appear that either the science or gery among the Jews was greatly en-
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by
the
translation
into
He-
unnetiol waeftaenr ytt h ii:gpetoriouds.
a rs t of
' brew of the writings of Brunus of
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This was done by one
The oft quoted chapter xxxViii of Ec-1 Longohurgo.
clesiasticus aboUt the physician is of Hillel ben Samu el.
During the latter part of the four-
a later date, and was probably writ-
teenth and early part of the fifteenth
ten under Greek influence.
Some specimens of Jewish surgery centuries the distant and ever in-
are to be found prior to 200 A. D. in creasing rumblings of the persecu-
(Next to Alhambra Theatre)
the Talmud. The Jewish rabbis were tions were being heard more and
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acquainted with sutures for wounds, more in Western Europe. Jewish cul-
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with the method of freshening the i ture which had reached its zenith in
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edges of an old wound to obtain re-1 Spain, Italy and France, began to de-
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union, with the employment of the !cline. Still the more liberal of the
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uterine sound to learn whether the rulers, recognizing the intrinsic worth
blood came from the uterus or.....the
vagina, the operation for imperforaTa t
anus, and also with anesthetic sub
stances with which they used to di-
minish the pain of a surgical opera.1
tion or capital punishment. They un-!
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derstood the application to the body
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of artificial parts, as for supplying
the loss of substance of the trachea
and the replacement of the loss of
substance of the cranial bone. They
knew artificial teeth, wooden legs, al-
so various forms and apparatus for
the unfortunate who were deprived
of their lower extremities. Ezekiel
describes clearly the treatment of
fractures: "Son of man, I have brok-
en the arm of l'haroah, King of
Egypt, and lo, it shall not be bound
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The surgery of the Talmud in-
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cludes a knowledge of dislocation of
the thigh bone, contusions of the
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skull, perforations of the lungs,
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esophagus, stomach, small intestines,
and gall bladder; wounds of the
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tures of the ribs, etc. As previously
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mentioned especially three great Jew-'
ish physicians. One of them only,
however, devoted himself to surgery.
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This was Rab. He appears to have
been extremely wealthy and thus
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spent a vast amount of money to
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procure subjects for dissection. Pre-
vious to this the more courageous of
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the physicians had procured through,
the intervention of the Rabbi the
body of a prostitute to study the
anatomy and the bony structure. To
this end they burned the tasty and
subsequently described 252 bones in-
stead of the usual 232. During the ,
next few centuries great strides were
made in medicine in general, though
nothing definitely can be ascertained
as to the progress of surgery in par-
ticular.
This was the great period of the
foundation of the schools at Mont-
pelier, at Salernum and at various,
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dally in Spain was the influence of
the Jewish Community for a Happy and Prosperous
'Jewish Physicians greatly felt. It is
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believed that Montpelier was found-
ed by a Jew. That they were the'
pioneers in many countries—Spain,
Italy, Germany—there is now no
doubt. But all this was at the ex-
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life.
Between the ninth and thirteenth
!centuries there were very few if any
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advances made in surgery. Only one
name stands out among the whole
group of what might truly be called
progressive men. This was Ihn Sina
or, as he is otherwise called, Avicen-
na, who lived 900-1036. He was called
' the "Prince of Physicians," was emi-
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physician and vizier to different cal-
I Ipha. As Garrison says, "he trod the
'primrose path at ease and died in the
at
prime of life from the effects of his
pleasures." He was Physician-In-
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Chief to the Bagdad Hospital which
was very celebrated, and he is sup-
posed to have written over one hun-
dred works on different subjects, only
a few of which have been preserved.
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one to describe the preparation and I k

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