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 MEDICINE

THE BIBLE, THOUGH NOT A MEDICAL TEXTBOOK, CONTAINS SOME PRINCIPALS THAT REFLECT ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH

Isolating sick people.

The Mosaic Law prescribed keeping people with leprosy separate from others. Not until the plagues of the Middle Ages did medical doctors learn to apply this principle, which is still deemed affective. - LEVITICUS, chapters 13 and 14. 

Washing after touching a dead body.

Until late in the 19th century, physicians often worked on corpses and then on living patients-without washing their hands in between. That practice caused many deaths.  Yet, the Mosaic Law stated that anyone who touched a dead body was ceremonially unclean. It even directed that water be used for ceremonially cleansing in such cases. Those religious practices surely had health benefits as well. - NUMBERS 19:11, 19. 

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