Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Page F JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICINE By EDWARD PODOLSKY, M.D. Jews began to distinguish them- selves in medicine with unusual prominence during the Middle Ages and shortly thereafter. Among the earliest of the great Jewish physicians was Isaac Israeli, who attained an enviable reputation as an eye specialist in his day. His eminence in this science was so great that he was made the private physician of Fatimate, Calif of Kairwan. Be- side his interest in diseases of the eye, Dr. Israeli did some original work on the origin of fevers. The most noteworthy Jewish physician of the Middle Ages was Moses Maimonides, whose name is immortalized in Hebrew litera- ture, was the author of the Guide to The Perplexed. He was also well known as a philosopher, poet, author and religious leader. As a physician Maimonides had many modern ideas on diet. He wrote on a great many medical prob- lems and his was one of the keenest medical minds of the times. PHYSICIAN TO POPE Bonet de Latis was another great name in early Jewish medi- cine. When the Jews were ex- pelled from Provence in the last part of the 15th century, he was called to Rome as the personal physician of Pope Leo X. His skill as a physician must have been extraordinary, for at a time when the Jews were subjected to the cruelest persecution for a Jew to become the personal physician of the Pope was a very notable achievement. He took advantage of his position to plead for his co-religionists when they were being subjected to the inhuman Pferrkorn persecutions. Another Jew yho became per sonal physician to a Pope was Jacob Mantine who was in at- tendance to Paul III. He was so versatile a man that he at- tained distinction as a diplomat as well, It was he who acted as ambassador on behalf of Charles V at Venice. During the 15th century and thereafter Jewish medical men of prominence became very numer- ous. They were found as private physicians to almost every king in Europe, and because of these positions were able to speak a good word for their people when the occasion demanded. Marie (le Medici was attended by Elias Mon- talte and she thought so much of him that she had his body em- balmed at his death as he desired and sent to Holland for burial. Some of these monarchs were strangely inconsistent as those who are insanely prejudiced are likely to be. Thus Francois I, who barred Jewish physicians from practising in France, was not averse to calling a Jewish doctor when he himself was seriously ill. The first Jewish physician to be permitted to fill the position of privatdocent in Prussia was Robert Remak. There is nothing surprising in this, for Remak was already a physician of inter- national reputation at that time, having won great honors in neurology and electrology. He also made great contributions to em- bryology, the science of life in the making. FATHER OF PATHOLOGY Another great German-Jewish physician was Ludwig Traube, who has earned the name of Fa- ther of Experimental Pathology. He made great contributions to the studies of clinical thermometry and to the treatment of heart disease with digitalis. Karl Wei- gart was another Jew who at- tained great prominence in medi- cine. He was also a pathologist and a member of the Leopsic University faculty. Today his name is immortalized in the fa- mous Weigart stains which have made 'Imssible many— discoveries- Rosh Hashona Greetings Tomarin Kosher Meat Market 12500 DEXTER BLVD. May You Enjoy Great Prosperity TO. 8.0727 tem, particularly on the brain, were in his (lay, standard works in this specialty, and today are among the classics in medical lit- erature. The German city of Frankfort on-the-Main was the birthplace of 1 1- 'Secretary of Commerce Henry A. 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