V. Lite7-atirre. — Besides the usual authorities on He- brew antiquities, Talmudical and modern, Wunderbar (Istes Heft, p. 57-69) has compiled a collection of writ- ers on the special subject of scriptural, etc., medicine, including its psychological and botanical aspects, as also its political relations; a distinct section of thirteen mon- ographs treats of the leprosj^; and every various disease mentioned in Scripture appears elaborated in one or more such short treatises. Those out of the whole num- ber which appear most generally in esteem, to judge from references made to them, are the following, which include a few from other sources : RosenmUller's Natural Histor;/ of ihe Bible (in t\\e Biblical Cabinet, \o\.yi;K.wii); De Wette, Ihbrdisrh-jiidi.irhe A rc/iaolor/ie, § 271 b ,-«Cal- met (Aui;ustin), Ln Mrih-rine ct /r.s- Mrdtcins des anc. Hebreu.r (in his ( 'nmi.K lili-nih . Paris. 1721, vol. v) ; idem, Dissertation siir la Sueur du Sang (Luke xxii,43,44); Vniner, KranJcheiten des Orients; Sprengel (Kurt), i?e medic. Ebrceorum (Halle, 1789, 8 vo) ; idem, Beit rage zur Geschickte der Medicin (Halle, 1794, 8vo) ; idem, Versuch einer pragm. Geschickte der Arzeneikunde (Halle, 1792, 1803, 182i; the last edition by Dr. Rosenbaum, Leipsic, 1846, 8vo, vol. i, § 37-45) ; idem, Histor. Rei Herbar. (lib, i. cap. i, Flora Biblica) ; Bartholini (Thorn.), Z^e morbis biblicis, miscellanea medica (in LTgolini, xxx, 1521); idem, Paralytici novi Testamenti (in Ugolini, xxx, 1459),-
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Schmiilt (Joh. Jac), Biblischer Medicm (Ziillichau, 1743, 8vo, p. 7(il) ; Kail, De morbis sacerdot. V. T. (Hafii. 1745, 4to) ; Keinhard (Chr.Tob. Ephr.), Bibelkrankheit., u-elche ini alkn Testam. vorkommen (i and ii, 1767, 8vo, p. 384; , V, 17C8, 8vo, p. 244) ; Shapter (Thomas), Medica sacra, or Short Expositions of the more important Diseases mentioned in the Sacred Writings (London, 1834) ; Wun- derbar (K. J.), Biblisch-Talmudische Medicin (in 4 parts, i;ifi;a, 1850-1853, 8vo; new series, 1857) ; Celsius (01.), liierobotanicon, s. deplantis sacra scripture dissertationes breves (2 parts, Upsal, 1745, 1747, 8vo ; Amstelod. 1748) ; I Bochart (Samuel), /yjerosofcon, s. bipartitum opus de ani- mulibus sacra scripturw (London, 16G5, fol. ; Frankfort, ! 1G75. I'.il. ; ediied by, and with the notes of Em. F. G. ] EostiimlilkT, Lips. 1793, 3 vols.4to); Spencer, iJe leyibus Ilt'bnviirnm ritualibus (Tubingen, 1732, fol.) ; Keinhard (:\Iich. IL), Jh- cibis Iltbrceorum prohibitis; Diss. 1 re- spon. Seb. Miiller (Viteb. 1697, 4to) ; JJiss. II respon. Chr, Liske (ibid. 1697, 4to) ; Eschenbach (Chr. Ehrenfr.), Profp: de lepra Judceorum (Kostock, 1774, 4to ; in his Scripta medic, bibl. p. 17^1) ; Schilling (G.G.),-/>'e lepra comnientutiones, rec. J. D. Hahu (Lugd. liat. 1788, 8vo) ; Chamseru (K.), Recherches stir le veritable caract'ere de la lepre des Ilebreux (in Mem. de la Soc, medic, d'emula- iion de Paris, 1810, iii, 335) ; Relation Chirui-gicale de I'Armee de VOi-ient (Paris, 1804) ; Wedel (Geo,W.),Z>e lepra in sacris (Jena, 1715, 4to; in his Exercitat. med. philoloff. Cent. II, dec. 4, p. 93-107) ; idem, De morb. Iliskim (,Jena, 1692, 4to ; in his Exercitat. med. philulog. Cent. I, dec. 7) ; idem, De morbo Jorami exercitat. I, II (Jena, 1717, 4to ; in his Exercitat. med. philolog. Cent, II, dec. 5) ; idem, De Saulo etiergumeno (Jena, 1685 ; in his Exercitat. med. philolog. Cent. I, dec. 2) ; idem, De morbis senuni Solomonceis (Jena, 1686, 4to ; in his Exercitat. med. j)hilolog. Cent. I, dec. 3) ; Lichtenstein, Versuch, etc. (in Eichhorn's ^l%em,£iWio^/ieA-,vi, 407-167); IMead (Dr. R.), Medica Sacra (London, 4to) ; Gudius (G. V.),Exei-- citatio philolof/ica de Ilebraica obstetrician origine (in Ugolini, XXX, 1061) ; Kail, De obstttricibus matrum Ile- brmariun in J-lggpto (Hamburg, 1746, 4to); Israels (Dr. K.\\^,Tentumen historico-niediciim, exhibens collectanea Ggmrcologica, qua ex Ttdniude Bubylonico depromsit ((iriiningen, 1845, 8vo); Biirner {¥.), Dissert, de statu Medicince ap. V'ett. Ilebr. (1735); Norberg,Z'e Medicina Arabum (in Opusc.Acad. ii, 101) : Asrhkenazei (JIos.), De ortu etprogr-essu Medli-hni i,,/, ,■ II, Imros (Hamburg, 17. ., 8vo); Ginsburger ( 1!. W'.i. J>i Midica. ex Talmn- dis illustrata (Gotting. 1743, 4toj; Goldmann, De rebus medices Vet. Test. (Bresl. 1846, 4to); Leutenschliiger (J. IL), De medicis veterum Hebr. (Schleiz.l786,8vo) ; Lind- linger (J. S.), De Ilebr. vett. medica de Bcemoniacis (Wit- teni). 1774, 2 vols. 8vo); Keineccius (Chr.), Dictum Tal- mndicum de optima medico, (Jehenne digno (Weissenb. 1721. fol.). Sec Physician.
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Mediety (or Portion) is the name given to the division of a rectory church into several parsonages or vicarages.
Medigo, Elia ben-Mose, Abba del, a noted Jewisli savan of the 15th century, celebrated for his at- tainments as a ]ihiloso])lier, flourished at Padua, Italy, as te.ailicr of inctapbysics. He died in 1493. For his works, s.c Fiirsl, Bibl. .lud. ii, 338.
Medigo, Joseph Salomo del, another Jewish writer of note, and of the same family as the preceding, was born at Candia in 1591. He was highly educated, and though busily engaged in the practice of medicine as one of the most eminent of his i)rofe.ssion, he never- theless devoted much time and attention to the study of Jewish philosophical jiroductions and the writings of Jewish mystics. He published dissertations on differ- ent philosophical subjects and on the Cabala, and biog- raphies of several eminent Hebrew literati. He died at Prague in 1655. See V\\Kt,Bibl. Judaica, ii, 338 sq.
Medina (Arab, city), or, more fully, JIedinat al- N.,UJi (City of the Prophet), also called Tubah, Tibah,