Hilaire Belloc
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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as confidently as if their books were not long since out of date and doing so in order to bolster up a theory of his by which apparently he hopes to foster disaffection between christians and jews he declared in his editorial in the boston advertiser which i suppose was published also in the various hearst papers throughout the country that jewish physicians traveled all over the world
studied and wrote learnedly on medicine and other sciences when christianity's only cure for disease was a miracle or as he so editorially put it while christians taught that the first joint of the thumb was under the personal care of god and other parts of the body supervised by other divine personages
maimonides jewish physician to the sultan saladin in egypt was writing on poisons and antidotes what nonsense a man can write when he thinks he knows something about a subject but knows nothing about it yet for that very reason is all the more ready to make confident assertions
there are a number of great jewish physicians but there is not a single century in the history of christianity since the fifth during which there have not been great christian physicians some of whose works have come down to us to show that men were thinking seriously about our medical problems and often anticipating some of our best thoughts with regard to them
dear brisbane do come out of the dark ages of the mid-nineteenth century when men having the worst hospitals that ever were the worst nursing ever thought of the ugliest architecture ever imagined when our american medical schools were granting a degree of doctor of medicine after two terms of four months each
and that degree was a license to practice medicine anywhere in the country when the standards of our american universities were so low that no foreign university would recognize our degrees when arts and crafts were almost unknown when social conditions were the worst in history were calmly talking about the middle ages as dark ages
history has in recent years revealed to us the wonderful triumphs the mediaeval people made in all those matters in which we failed having no architecture no painting worth talking about no educational standards ugly hospitals and bad surgery we actually could not appreciate what they were doing in the middle ages
and dare declare that they must be doing nothing because they were doing something so different from anything we were doing now we know better we are imitating their architecture humbly studying their painting redeveloping their surgery renewing their anesthesia emulating their hospitals and beginning to solve social problems as they did
It is time for men whose opinions are still in the dark ages of the benighted nineteenth century to wake up and learn something of all that has been revealed to us about the wonderful middle ages.
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