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Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 29th of November 2007 at 12:37:50 AM
Another creepy disease from Talmudic times, from Ketubot 77b:
What are its symptoms? His eyes tear, his nostrils run, he brings spittle from his mouth, and flies swarm around him.
And what is its cure? Abaye said: Take the following ingredients: Pennyroyal [a kind of mint] and wormwood, the bark of a nut tree [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 9th of November 2007 at 03:11:37 PM
Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakki wept and said, “Fortunate are you, O Israel. When they do the will of the omnipresent, no nation or tongue can rule over them, but when they do not do the will of the omnipresent, he delivers them to the hands of a lowly nation. And not into the hands [...]