Dr. Flexner's Su n Subbuth Ki(hhish By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX Writes Saga About JTA, Inc.) Famous Physi• :ia us Tin• meal on Friday evening as (C. , pyrighl, 1969. \tell as on Saturday morning be- Disease and medical incenwi- gins with the recital of the Kidush tence played a major part in the while the meal on Saturday after- noon is not begun with the recital history of the American Itch of it. tion and the early Republic. Peoplc Actually, there are sources that fled Philadelphia in terror wilco yellow fever killed thousamk; doe- indicate that the Kidush should be recited before the third meal as tors continued to bleed their dying well (Setter Rabbi Amram Gaon). patients. Doctors were trained by Many have cited the position of being apprenticed to practicing Maimonides who evidently requir- physicians, many of whom had ni ed the recital of the Kidush at the formal education of their own. third meal. A medieval savant Germs were unheard of, and anti- who specialized in the study of gentles and anesthetics were un- liturgy (Abudraham) explains the known. Much of pre - Civil W:ir position of Rabbi Asher (the medical practice was blind stum- "Rosh") as well as others who did bling through darkness. Yet the not require the recitation of Kid- challenge of disease was ever pres- ush before the third meal. They ent, more insistent to the doctors claimed that the purpose of the on horseback than the challenge of Kidush was to indicate that the the wilderness. In the settlements meal to be eaten was a sanctified of early America were created doe- meal and was being eaten in honor tors of genius, courage and deter- of the Sabbath. It was enough then mination, who, often without prop- to recite Kidush once in the eve- er knowledge or tools, made dis- ning (Friday night) to indicate Coveries that helped usher in the' that all that was eaten Friday age of modern medical science. night was being consecrated as a In his first hook, "Doctors on „Sabbath meal. It was therefore Horseback," a Dover paperback, also enough to recite Kidush James Thomas Flexner created a once in the daytime to indicate that vivid biography of several early this meal as well as any other American physicians: John Mor- meal which was to be eaten on this gan, the most brilliant physician in day would be consecrated as - Sab- the Colonies, founder of the first bath meals. Thus the third meal medical school, head of the Con- (Seuda Sh'lishit) of the Sabbath tinental Army's medical depart. had already been consecrated as a ment; William Shippen, Jr., his Sabbath meal by the Kidush that enemy and rival (and the battle was already recited at the morn- that raged between them); Ben- ing meal. jamin Rush, a powerful and con- troversial man; Ephraim Mc- Dowell, the leading surgeon of the Kentucky frontier (including the agonizing story of the first hyste- rectomy); Daniel Drake, medical educator on the Ohio; John Lam- bert Richmond, the pioneer of Caesarian operations; -William Beaumont, one of America's great- est physiologists, and the first to isolate pure human gastric juice; Crawford W. Long and William T. G. Morton, co-discoverers of the anesthetic properties of ether. Seven extraordinary characters are recreated for the modern reader. These portraits have the authenticity of historical research and the color of contemporary fic- tion. Flexner admits that his bril- liant narrative of the pioneers of American medicine blends the in- fluence of his home environment With what were more specifically his personal predilections. His father was the famous scientific investigator, Dr. Simon Flexner. lnutch Underground iActivities Outlined • Novel by Mundell in THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Paul Mandel, whose novel, "Mainside" was a best seller, was only half-way through writing his novel "The Black Ship" when he died of cancer at the age of 36. .11is wife, Sheila, completed it. It has been published by Random House and is an outstanding work on incidents of the last war. It is the story of an American's experiences on a PT boat in the English Channel. 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And if properly performed, it is a service of a far higher quality than that of prayer and meditation alone; it is the service of the whole man. The enjoyment of the Sabbath is neither spiritual nor material: it is wholly human. Body and spirit celebrate the Sabbath in common- ion.The Jew who keeps the Sab- bath may say that the material enjoyments of the day enhance his spiritual elation and that his spirit- ual elation renders the material enjoyments more gratifying. In the unifying act of the mitzva the Sab- bath acts as "a spice" to the palate and as an exhilarating ie) . for the spirit of man. There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. —Paul Cezanne. • s wiNSTON-SALEN. Ifs, * 1 REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO N. C. If you've been off doing your own thing, you may not know about Doral. 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