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A number of illnesses are discussed on our daf. What might have been hepatitis; what may have been diphtheria. Treatments, including bloodletting, are mentioned as well. At issue is the treatment of illness on Shabbat. The rabbis agree that an illness must be life-threatening for a person to administer medicine on Shabbat. They argue about which illnesses are in fact life-threatening.
We explore medicine in the talmud from Pikuach nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Lichtenstein) to the influence of Galen on the Rabbis and the struggle between medicine and religion in the Rambam by Elinor Lieber.