Medicine in The Bible
Macht was an Orthodox Jew and a Doctor of Hebrew Literature, and he frequently advocated the position that there was a harmonious relationship between religion and science. He studied medical and other descriptions in the Bible and the Talmud, and published many papers that claimed to show that these were accurate descriptions of diseases or treatments. . Such papers include:
- A Pharmacological Appreciation of References to Alcohol in the Hebrew Bible, (1929). In which he compared the effects of alcohol mentioned in the Bible with current medical understanding and concluded "the Book of Books is in complete accord with the most modern and advanced experimental data on the subject"
- An Experimental Pharmacological Appreciation of Leviticus XI and Deuteronomy XIV, (1953). In which Macht used his phytopharmacology technique on samples of both Levitically clean and unclean animals, and showed a markedly higher phytotoxic index for the unclean meats and the correlation was 100%.
- A pharmacological appreciation of a biblical reference to mass poisoning, II Kings IV
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