Dr. Samuel Rosen
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. […]
Prof. Selman A. Waksman
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 […]
Physician Only Has Permission to Heal…
Dr. Michael Braver writes in his Pe’er Yitzhak that Rabbi Yitzhak Eisik of Zhidachov was once asked to pray for a sick person. When he was told that the doctor […]
Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
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 […]
Dr. Martin Buchband
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 […]
Dr. Suessmann Muntner
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 […]
The Late Dr. Arthur (Dov) Hyman
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, […]
At the Haffkine Institute in Bombay
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 […]
Waldemar Haffkine (Mordecai Zeev) On the 70th Anniversary of His Death
The 3rd of Heshvan 5761 will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Waldemar (Mordecai Zeev) Haffkine, the famous bacteriologist who discovered vaccines against the cholera and the bubonic […]
Maimonides’ Medical Writings
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. […]