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Darrera modificació: 2022-02-02
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Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Nu'mān al-Isrā'īlī and his Commentary to Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī's Kitāb al-Mi'a ("Book of the Hundred")", dins: Lehmhaus, Lennart (ed)., Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 337-347.
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- I have three objectives to achieve in this brief paper. The first and most relevant objective for the theme of this volume is to add another name to the already very distinguished roster of medieval Jewish physicians and/or medical writers. In fact, I find it prudent to distinguish between individuals who are known to have been practicing physicians and those who have left us a contribution to the medical literature, without, however, there being any information about their biographies. We tend to assume, and surely this is generally a correct assumption, that those people who wrote books on medicine were practicing physicians. However, arch-skeptic that I am, I would like to see evidence for this, for example, in case histories which are noted in the books and monographs that these people wrote. More importantly, it may be the case that the books and medical texts present a theory that was not always put into practice precisely as described in the texts. I am glad to see that Max Meyerhof, himself both a practicing physician and historian of medicine, was alert to this distinction. As for Nu'mān, the subject of this paper: he certainly was well-informed, and deeply interested in, theory; but so far-and I must emphasize that I have studied only a portion of the unique manuscript-I have not come across any references to his own practice. The other two objectives do not concern the history of Jewish participation in the medical profession in any special way, but they are of no little significance. They concern two areas where the book I wish to speak about makes an important contribution to the history of medicine; hence, one can surely say that these additional tidbits indicate how important texts written by Jews are for the history of medicine in general. One is the reception of Ibn Sīnā's al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb, perhaps the most influential medical textbook ever written. If and when its reception history is told fully and properly, the story must include people like Nu'mān, who rejected Ibn Sīnā's masterpiece. Nu'mān, as we shall see, preferred earlier medical authorities; this trait was shared by the few others who also did not care much for Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn. The other important feature is Nu'mān's very rich list of works cited, which includes a slew of recognizable texts that are not known to have survived and personalities whose work remains basically unknown.
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