A. M. Virshubsky. Mental and nervous diseases according to the Talmud. — Jewish medical voice. Odessa. 1909

Abstract

In a short article, the author combines fragmentary information about mental illness scattered in the Talmud among legal and religious treatises. Although the medical records were intended primarily for forensic purposes, they indicate quite clearly that the compilers of the Talmud had correct clinical understanding of many forms of mental disorder. The Talmud does not mention nervous diseases due to the author's conjectures, because at the time of the compilation of the Talmud they had no forensic medical significance.

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