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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Shemesh, Abraham Ofir, "The "french diesease" as a cause for enforcing divorce in rabbinical discussions in recent centuries", Jewish Law Association Studies, 24 (2013), 262-277.
- Resum
- Syphilis is a sexual disease, which is rare today. This article discusses the historical and medical-halachic background of syphilis according to Jewish Scripture in the Middle Ages. For the first time in the history of the Jewish law, sages in the 16th century discussed syphilis, in terms of the relationship between the syphilis patient and his wife. In the period's sources, the syphilis was described as a skin illness - wounds that cover the patient's body. But, it was hard for the ancient physicians to distinguish between syphilis and leprosy. Many sages claimed that the syphilis patient must divorce his wife, when his smell is bad or his skin has peeled off. Others claimed that only a leprosy patient must divorce his wife, because he has no cure, but the syphilis patient has a cure. We can assume that many of the rabbinical discussions about syphilis derived from the breaking out of the syphilis plague in Europe at the end of the 15th century and in the course of 16th century.
- Matèries
- Jueus
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Religió - Regles i consuetes
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- https://www.academia.edu/38784405/THE_FRENCH_DISEAS ...
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