A. M. Virshubsky. Mental and nervous diseases according to the Talmud. — Jewish medical voice. Odessa. 1909

Abstract

In a short article, the author combines fragmentary information about mental illness scattered in the Talmud among legal and religious treatises. Although the medical records were intended primarily for forensic purposes, they indicate quite clearly that the compilers of the Talmud had correct clinical understanding of many forms of mental disorder. The Talmud does not mention nervous diseases due to the author's conjectures, because at the time of the compilation of the Talmud they had no forensic medical significance.

Full Text

Въ краткой статьѣ авторъ соединяетъ отрывочныя свѣдѣнія о душевныхъ болѣзняхъ, разсѣянныя въ Талмудѣ среди юридическихъ и религіозныхъ трактатовъ. Хотя медицинскія свѣдѣнія предназначались, главнымъ образомъ, для судебной экспертизы, но они достаточно опредѣленно указываютъ, что составители Талмуда имѣли вѣрныя клиническія понятія о многихъ формахъ психическаго разстройства. О нервныхъ заболѣваніяхъ Талмудъ не упоминаетъ по догадкамъ автора, потому что во время составленія Талмуда они не имѣли судебно-медицинскаго значенія.