The kosher code of the orthodox Jew.

Numerous notes were appended to the text. Some of them are references to or quotations from the Mishnah, Gemara and the various commentaries to the Shulhan Aruk; others deal with the subject of talmudic anatomy in the light of the science of its day and of the present time; and still others define the terminology used in the Shulhan Aruk. On a few occasions the authors have succeeded in correcting certain erroneous definitions found in the works of Jastrow, Katzenelson and others. Both in his preface to the book and in his notes, Prof. Boyden gives full credit to the talmudic teachers for their contributions to the sciences of gross anatomy, physiology, embryology and pathology. According to him the Amoraim worked out in detail the gross anatomy of the lungs and anticipated the modern conception of lobes as outgrowths of stem bronchi. They described the mediastinal pocket of the infracardiac lobe, the visceral pleura, the visceral and parietal layers of the pericardium; they noted the formation of adhesions from exudates that congeal into membranes at the sites of perforations of the lungs and differentiated them from normal membrances. They described correctly the parts and action of the ruminant stomach and gave us the present day term omasum. Prof. Boyden and most of the reviewers of his book maintain that no distinction was made by the rabbis between the large and small intestine. However, Perlman, in his Midrash Harefuah, quotes sources mentioning the m'rp t'oi and the w'Ny I1ZD.2