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.nteresting
Items
The following two interest-
ing items appeared in a- recent
issue of the Journal of the
An 'AR' Tercentenary Feature
statutes that lie at the root of American Medical Association:
Part S
our most advanced civilization,
Tuberculosis in Israel: Despite
Algernon Sidney, whose. "Dis- that embody the highest justice the coordinated efforts of all
courses Concerning Govern- and the broadest humanity. health' institutions and . services
ment" was the chief text-book They had their statutes of lim- in Israel, tuberculosis is still a
of the founders of our govern- itations, which provided that at major disease here. The inci-
ment, and whose , works were to the end of every cycle of seven dence of tuberculosis at present
be found in the libraries of times seven years, in the year , is 3 or 4 cases per 1,000, accord-
Franklin, Adams, Jefferson and of jubilee, all debts should be ing to Dr. Y. Kott,, medical di-
many others of our scholars, cancelled and all unfulfilled ob- Hector Of the hospitals of the
statesmen, and divines,. sums up ligations annulled.
I Histadrut Disability Fund. This
Political Equality
his estimate of the Hebrew Com-
figure is similar to that of most
No better law than that of European countries, but as late
monwealthin these words:
"Having seen what government Moses could have been devised as 1947 Israel had one . of the
God did not ordain, it may be to maintain political equality. lowest' tuberculosis rates in the
reasonable to examine the na- The effect was the same as if .world—about 1 per 1,000. The
ture of government he did or- the- state retained the fee and increased incidence may be at-
dain, and we shall find it con- every fifty years. made leases to , tributed to indiscriminate mass
sisted of those parts, besides the every head of a family at a immigration, which brought
magistrates of the several tribes nominal rental. In fact, we find hundreds of tuberculosis persons
and cities : They had a chief a positive provision that - the to Israel. In some immigrant
Magistrate, who was c a 11 e d land should not be permanently groups the rate was as high as
Judge or Captain, as Joshua,' alienated: "The land shall not 10 cases per 1,000.
Gideon, and others; a Council be sold forever; for the land is
Regimen Sanitatis of. Ram-
of seventy chosen men, and the mine, for ye are strangers and barn: In his "Review of Regi-
General Assembly of the people. sojourners with me" (Lev. XXV, men Sanitatis of Rambam," S.
I . 23). The homestead and ex-
Muntner (Dapnn Refulim,
Civil ree om
' emption laws find .„their origin
The first was Merely occa- in the following humane provi- March, 1954) said that Rambam,
sional, like- to the Dictators of sion of the Mosaic code: "No the. 750th anniversary of whose
Rome * * *___The second is known man shall take the, upper or death will be this year, was "es-
by the name of the Great San- nether millstone to pledge; for sentially a physician." He
hedrin, which, being instituted ihe taketh a man's, life to treated individual patients as
by Moses, according to the com- p ledge." The principle embod- well as the community, and the
mand of God, continued till ied in this law is being grad- body as well as the soul. He left
they were all, save one, slain by . ually . recognized in the . civil 10 books on medicine, some of .
Herod. And the third, which is laws of all nations, that a man which have been published
•the Assembly of the People, was cannot by distraint for debt be either not at all or not in prop-
so common that none can be deprived of the necessary means erly scientific, critical editions.
-ignorant of it, but such as never of sustainin • life .
-Three of his short essays were
looked into the Scripture. The
published by Rabbi H. Kroner
Justice For All
-author then cites Josephus,
Akin to this hu- ' lane and ten- in Arabic, • Hebrew and German,
Philo, Maimonides, and Abar- der consideration for the poor and one of hiS books was pub-
banel in confirmation of his text.
are the statutes requiring the lished in . Arabic and French by
- Aside from this popular and -master to pay the hire of his Max Meyerhof. The book on
-progressive . system of govern, servant promptly on the day asthma and that on poisons and
anent that was organized by when due: "Neither shall the antidotes were published by S.
-Moses and his immediate suc- sun go down upon it, for he is Muntner. The others are now
cessors, a number of statutes poor and setteth his heart upon ready for publication. They are:
_Were passed, doubtleSs with a it." There is a sense of mingled ."On Hemorrhoids," "De Coitu"
-view to raising the people up to kindness • and juitice expressed (on cohabitation and.. aphrodis-
•such standard of moral worth . in this injunction, and the rea- iacs), "Aphorismi M 0 y s i s, ".
.that they might be a law unto sons assigned for its strict obe-- "Commentary op Aphorisms of'
.themselves and long cherish the dience appeal touchingly to the Hippocrates.". "Regimen Sanita-
'blessings of civil freedom under master's obligation. Numerous tis" excels in worth and charm
_their. God - given government; other laws of universal appli- any similar book written on the
cation are contained in this subject before. or Since. The
.code, which provides not only third part deals with psycho
for justice tempered with mercy, somatology and tries to explain
as between man and man, - but several psychophysical phenom-
OF
S O•f:
prohibits -cruelty towards the ena. This book was translated
lower animals.
into. Latin and first published
GEST
Monarchy Without Tyranny . as an incunabulum. It has been
The lessons of the decline of published many times since.
In the same issue, D. Margal-
this republic are as valuable and
instructive as that of its devel- ity of Tel Aviv stated that Mai-
opment. It was not subverted inonides (Rambam, or Rabenu
by force, nor. by the tricks or Moshe Ben Maimon, Or, in Ara-
cunning devices of unscrupulous bic, Musa.. Abu Amran, Ibn-Mai-
' leaders, as was the case with • mon, Ovaid-Allah) was born in
the Grecian, Roman, and Vene- Cordova, Spain, in 1135, and
tian republics, but by the people died in Fostat, a suburb of
I exercising their democratic pre- Cairo, Egypt, in 1204. He devoted
! rogative, the right of choice to most of his life to writing re-
set up over themselves such ligious and philosophical books,
form of government as they and only after 1190 began to
might elect. Their original con- write medical books, although-
, stitution provided such a con- he had practiced medicine for
tingency, and while giving about 40 years. In his opinion a
warnings against it, contained good physician must be first of
instructions for establishing, a all a good man, free of greed,
form of monarchy which would and willing to sacrifice himself
be farthest removed from tyran- for the sake of the sick. Ram-
ny. Thus we see at this early bam and his family had to flee
period of mankind-1,500 years for safety from Spain to Egypt,
and more before the Christian from there to Palestine, and
era, before Rome had obtained back to Cairo, where he spent
a foothold in history, 500 years the rest of his life as court
before Homer sang, and 1,000
years before Plato had dreamed physician . to the sultan Saladin.
of his ideal republic, when all Each day, except Saturday, he
western Europe was an - untro&. would travel from Fostat to the
den wilderness—the children of royal court in Cairo, come back
Israel on the banks of the Jor- in the late afternoon, and,
dan, who had just emerged from without rest, attend the sick.
centuries of bondage, not only
recognized the guiding princi-
It will be worth your while
ples of civil and religious liberty
that "all men are created
To
drive an extra mile,
equal," that God and the law
are the only kings, but also
For a Reol Deal
established a free common-
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republic under a written con-
stitution, "a government of the
people, by the people, and for
the people."
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Flag Day of JNF Set for Nov. 13-14
Flag Day, the JNF Fall Tag
Day, was set for Saturday night
and all day Sunday, Nov. 13 and
14, by the Jewish National Fund
Council. Boris Wise is chairman
of the tag day committee.
More than 300 young people,
members of Hashomer Hatzair,
Habonim, Hechalutz Hatzatr,
Bnei Akiva, Young Judea and
others, will cover the Jewish
community to sell JNF tags.
Proceeds are dedicated to the
reclamation of the land of Israel,
restoring thousands of acres to
food producing fertility and for
the settlement 'of the hills and
border areas which is essential
to the guarding of Israers
elongated frontiers.
A rally for all participants in
the tab day will'be held Satur-
day, Nov. 6, at the Davison
Jewish Center. The participat-
ing organizations are preparing
a program of entertainment and
refreshments. Jack Lemberger of
New York, former youth group
leader, now head of the JNF
- labor department, will be a guest
at the rally.
For information call the JNF
office. TO. 8-7384.
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