RARE lecture on Jewish contributions to medicine from the biblical period, through Talmudic and medieval periods, to the beginning of 19th-century reprinted from Gratz College Publication No.1. The author - Aaron Friedenwald (1836-1902), an American physician and author who specialized in ophthalmology, was Professor of diseases of the eye and ear in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore from 1873 until his death, president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (1889-90), founder of the influential Association of American Medical Colleges in 1890, founder and for thirty-three years a director of the Baltimore Hebrew Orphan Asylum, chairman of the Baron de Hirsch committee in Baltimore, president of the Baltimore branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, one of the founders and vice-president of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association, of the Jewish Publication Society, of the Federation of American Zionists, of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America, etc. 235x155mm. 61 pages. Red cloth rebound Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Original softcover in-bound. Original softcover edges/corners missing/tattered. Edges of title-page, rear whitepage, pages 3-6 and 61 worn/slightly tattered - NO damage to text. Corrections of two misprinted words written in ink on page 8. Pages dog-eared (corners of some pages chipped, corners of many pages wrinkled - NO damage to text). Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This important contribution to medical literature by an eminent authority in the field has sustained some wear over the years, but was recently rebound, and is thus in good reading condition.