The ancient Hebrew medicine was influenced by Assyrian Babylonian culture, where the disease is God's punishment as a consequence of sin.
In culture and medicine is very important to the Jewish concept of purity and impurity cleaning correlates with good health, and dirt with the disease.
Jewish medicine is a medicine of a religious nature in which God is the only source of healing. The doctor-priest is the instrument chosen by God for the healing process.
There are numerous religious requirements with hygiene: washing hands, changing clothes, dietary restrictions, circumcision.
The leper, considered impure from the point the moral and spiritual, was removed from society and his clothes were burned.
You knew the use of various medicines, including willow (Salix alba) and was known the sexual transmission of certain diseases.
also interesting aspects of diet as the prohibition of consuming blood, fat and meat from certain animals (Leviticus 7, 23-26 "Do not eat any fat of ox or sheep or goat's blood ... not eating at all, nor fowl or domestic animals eat blood ... Anyone of any kind, will be cut off from his people "), fish without fins or scales (molluscs were recognized as potential bearers food-borne infections).
addition, there were laws intended to protect wells from various forms of pollution including human waste.
widespread was the practice of bloodletting. Circumcision, initially a health measure, later became a sign of the covenant between God and Abraham (Genesis 17, 10-14).
A significant passage from Exodus 15, 26: "If you listen to the voice of the Lord .... Do not suffer the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you."
It 'important to remember that Moses had established strict rules (diet, sanitation, purification, quarantine) to protect the people during the exodus.
A very curious is the medical word that in Hebrew is Rofe. Raph This word derives from the verb which means to heal, even the name of the angel Raphael healer has the same origin and means "God heals."
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