Maimonides, arguably the most influential Jewish scholar ever, offers an analogy remarkably similar in ‘‘spirit’’ to positive reinforcement approaches to education. While discussing a matter of faith in his commentary on a tractate of the Talmud (see Touger, 1994), Maimonides walks the potential teacher through the essential steps of effective education. He clearly delineates the contingencies ...

A 36-year-old Hispanic female diagnosed with non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia and salt wasting disorder on chronic exogenous steroids presented to our emergency department with excruciating bilateral flank pain, 10/10 in intensity, associated with nausea, vomiting, and generalised weakness. On examination, the patient was in hypovolemic shock with BP of 65/45 mmHg, MAP 52 mmhg, and ...

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...