I'm reading a book that's not that great really about death. Hmmm. Interesting you say. Well, like I said, it's not that great. However! She has one of the best footnotes I've seen in while about a book she read on Talmudic medicine:
"Here were detailed rabbinical opinions upon 'whether or not a cattle breeder whose animal caused damage by knocking something with its penis must make restitution"; upon the inadmissibility of cleansing the anus 'with the snout of a dog'; upon 'the misconduct in which a woman places into the vagina of another woman a piece of meat from a fallen animal'...and treatments for chronic uterine bleeding ('take three measures of Persian onions. boil them with wine, make her drink it and say to her, "Cease your discharge!")
Three things come to mind:
1) What manner of ...?
2) "Cease your discharge!" is like my most favorite thing to say right now.
3) I need to, have to, must must must read this book.