Medicine

Early in 1952, after ten years of intensive study, Dr. Samuel Rosen discovered a new method of restoring hearing in people who suffered from otosclerosis, a common form of deafness. […]

Dr. Selman A. Waksman, the discoverer of Streptomycin, is an admirer of Waldemar Haffkine. I wonder how many readers know who Haffkine was? I’m sure many know he was an […]

Between 1988 and 1998 the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medico-Halakhaic Research, which is associated with Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical center, published the six volume Entziklpedia Hilkhatit Refuit (Encyclopedia of […]

Last week Dr. Martin Buchband, one of the world’s leading ear, nose and throat specialists, died in New York at the age of eighty. He was not only a well […]

Three months ago, Dr. Suessmann Muntner died at the age of seventy-five. He was on the way to the Western Wall when he collapsed near the Jaffa Gate of the […]

Dr. Arthur (Dov) Hyman who died last summer in Jerusalem at the venerable age of 91, was both a well known medical authority and a prominent Judaic scholar. His father, […]

In 1896 the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. The Indian government asked Waldemar M. Haffkine to investigate the cause of the plague and to attempt to develop a vaccine […]

An Arab poet sang in praise of Maimonides’ art of healing: Galen’s heart heals only the body, but Abu-Amram’s (Maimonides’) the body and soul. Mosad HaRav Kook recently reprinted Dr. […]