FALAQUERA, NATHAN BEN JOEL
- FALAQUERA, NATHAN BEN JOEL
- FALAQUERA, NATHAN BEN JOEL (late 13th century),
Spanish physician. He may be identical with Nathan of Montpellier, the
teacher of the anonymous author of Sefer ha-Yashar. Falaquera
is the author of a book on medicine, Ẓori ha-Guf ("Balm for
the Body"), written in Hebrew; however, although he uses medical and
botanic terms taken from talmudic literature, his sources are mainly
Arabic. The opinions of Hippocrates, Galen, Averroes, Avicenna, and
Maimonides are given. Three manuscripts of the book are still extant and
it was quoted by Joseph b. Eliezer ha-Sephardi, author of Ohel
Yosef on Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Torah.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H. Friedenwald, Jews and Medicine (1944), 661; G. Sarton,
Introduction to the History of Science, 2 pt. 2 (1931),
1096–97.
(David Margalith)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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