Looking for a good doctor? This portrait from our collection is a fanciful depiction of Maimon
Looking for a good doctor? This portrait from our collection is a fanciful depiction of Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, the Rambam, 1135/1138-1204) by Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). Maimonides was a physician as well as a Torah scholar, and translated two works by Galen (physician, surgeon, philosopher, 129-200/216 C.E.). Among Galen’s writings is information about symptoms and treatment of the Antonine Plague, later identified as smallpox. -- source link
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