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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300)

-400 – 300

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1915 CE–1917 CE

#12818

Asaf Judaeus, der aelteste medizinische Schriftsteller in hebaeischer Sprache

ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300)
VENETIANER, Ludwig (Venetianer Lajos) (1867 – 1922)
VENETIANER, Ludwig (Venetianer Lajos) (1867 – 1922)

The Sefer Asaf, the earliest known Hebrew work on medicine, is "extant in 16 manuscripts, some complete; it constitutes a source of information on ancient customs and Jewish medical ethics as well as of ancient Jewish…

1957 CE

#11944

Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.

MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973) ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300)

See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.