From the Middle East B.C.E. to medieval Spain through the end of WWII, Frank Heynick traces the relationship between a people and a science in Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga. The ancient ritual of circumcision, Maimonides, the Bavarian Jacob Henle and Nobel-winner Otto Loewi make appearances in this sweeping history of literary, religious and professional links between Judaism and medical practice. Heynick, a scholar of medical history and linguistics, discusses the sale of mummified remains as a cure for disease, the ascendance of psychoanalysis and hundreds of other famous and obscure historical moments. -Publisher's Weekly.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Wandering Jew as Doctor -- A Serpent upon a Pole -- Hellas and Talmud -- The Doctor Who Could Stop the Crescent from Waning -- A Tale of Two Peninsulas -- The Fifth Element from the Orient -- The Stars across the Pyrenees -- The Sage of Amsterdam -- Enlightenment under the North German Sun -- The Subvisible Botanist of Breslau -- The Molecular Locksmith from Strehlen -- A Russian's Amoebae to the Rescue -- The Magic Bullet in Frankfurt -- Vienna, City of Dreams -- Blood, Germs, and Genes in the Third Reich -- The War of the Microbes at Oxford -- Heralding the American Century -- From the Soil of the New World - Epilogue - Bibliography -- List of Jewish Nobel Laureates in Medicine - Index.