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Bidding Information
Lot #    10474
Auction End Date    5/24/2005 10:36:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Regimen Sanitatis
Author    R. Moses b. Nahman (Ramban)
City    Heidelberg
Publication Date    1931
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    14, [1], 79, [1] pp., 208:147 mm., crisp copy bound as published.
          
Paragraph 1    Limited facimile edition by A. Freiman, numbered 183/350 of the incunable edition in the Bayerischen Staats-Bibliothek.
          
Detailed
Description		    Maimonides wrote ten medical works, one of the most important was Regimen Sanitatis. Maimonides' whole concept of medicine is based on the conviction that a healthy body is the prerequisite for a healthy soul. This enables a man to develop his intellectual and moral capabilities and leads him toward the knowledge of God and thus to a more ethical life. He regards healing as the art of repairing both the defects of the body and the turmoil of the mind. A physician must therefore have not only the technical knowledge of his profession, but also the intuition and skill to understand the patient's personality and environment. Maimonides divides medicine into three main fields: preventive medicine - the care of the healthy; the curing of the sick; and the care and treatment of the convalescent, including the aged. Though leaning heavily on the medical teachings of the ancient Greeks, Maimonides warns against blind belief in so-called authorities and upholds the value of clear thought and experiments. His medical observations, diagnoses, and methods of healing mentioned in his works on asthma, poisons, his medical responsa, and commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates contain innovations in their day and many of them are still valid. Maimonides wrote his medical books in Arabic, most of them were soon translated into Hebrew and Latin.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Medical
  
Characteristic
Language:    Latin
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica