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An Address on Obstetrics and Gynæcology in the days of the Patriarchs *
Author(s) -
GreenArmytage V. B.
Publication year - 1927
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1927.tb16012.x
Subject(s) - citation , bengal , obstetrics and gynaecology , medicine , political science , law , history , pregnancy , biology , genetics , archaeology , bay
MY particular reason for thinking that the subject on which 1 am about to address you might be of interest to j o u arose recently when I \\as delving in the Bible for anthropological evidence of endocrine influence, such as might bear upon the matter of the “hirsute man of action” and “the smooth man of thought,” and whereas I might have mentioned Nimrod, Goliath, Samson, Judith, or Jezebel, each of them respectively illustrative of hyperadrenalism, hyper-pituitarism, and hyper-thyroidism, I chose rather to quote the birth of Esau and Jacob which, from an AngloSaxon point of view, cannot fail to be of interest to those of us who dwell in the Delta of the Ganges. In my search it occurred to me that it might be of more than ordinary interest to observe, from an expert point of view, the references in the Rabbinical writings to Gyniecology and Obstetrics, and to this end 1 have used the Moffat Translation, the Revised Version, and the Douay Authorised Translation. I do not intend to stray far outside the path of my title, but, perhaps it may entertain those of you who follow work at the Tropical School of Medicine to study that wonderful description of bacillary dysentery i n the Second Book of Chronicles, Ch. 2 1 , v. 15 and 19, and then to pass on to the picture of the oncoming of the Monsoon in the First Book of Kings, Ch. 18, v. 43-45.