Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 2 – Prolegomena
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Logo-technical analysis systematically connects with mathematics i.a. Pythagoras’s
and knows the set theory as a signifying phenomenon.
6.2 TJM in European history
Jewish medicine shows ethical and cultural similarities with subsequent medicine
in Europe and the USA. Therefore I join Shyrock’s statement: “The history of
medicine not only has a biological side, but also a social and an economic side; it
is one of the central themes in human experience”. 114
Albert S. Lysons, in the History of Medicine, writes some things about Jewish
medicine that are important to my research, but they do not cover more than two
pages; indicative for the cultural importance of Jewish medicine?
Lysons directly goes wrong interpretatively. It is clear that he connects Jewish
medicine to his view on Judaism as a religion. The link to other cultures with
their religious slant makes this clear: “The medical practices of the Hebrew did
not differ much from those of the peoples around them. Some medications are
mentioned in the Bible, like mandrake, balms, gum, spices, oils and perhaps
drugs, but the list of medications is noteworthy short, compared to the abundant
materia medica of Mesopotamian and Egyptian physicians”. 115 We will see how
great the influence was of Jewish scholars like Maimonides – called Rambam in
the Jewish world – who was a great doctor in the Arabic world and court physician
of the Sultan in Egypt.
Comparing the medical activities within the great cultures of the Middle-East
does not do justice to Jewish medicine. Place and function of the doctor within
Jewish tradition are completely governed by the ultimate principles. A Jewish
114 Shyrock, Richard Harrison, The Development of Modern Medicine, A.A. Knopf, New York 1947 (quote Lyons in An
Illustrated History of Medicine, 1978. Abrams, New York.)
115 Lyons/Petrucelli, History of Medicine, op. cit. p. 70