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But
the
Jews
,
both
male
and
female
,
possessed
and
practised
the
medical
science
in
all
its
branches
,
and
the
monarchs
and
powerful
barons
of
the
time
frequently
committed
themselves
to
the
charge
of
some
experienced
sage
among
this
despised
people
,
when
wounded
or
in
sickness
.
The
aid
of
the
Jewish
physicians
was
not
the
less
eagerly
sought
after
,
though
a
general
belief
prevailed
among
the
Christians
,
that
the
Jewish
Rabbins
were
deeply
acquainted
with
the
occult
sciences
,
and
particularly
with
the
cabalistical
art
,
which
had
its
name
and
origin
in
the
studies
of
the
sages
of
Israel
.
Neither
did
the
Rabbins
disown
such
acquaintance
with
supernatural
arts
,
which
added
nothing
(
for
what
could
add
aught
?
)
to
the
hatred
with
which
their
nation
was
regarded
,
while
it
diminished
the
contempt
with
which
that
malevolence
was
mingled
.
A
Jewish
magician
might
be
the
subject
of
equal
abhorrence
with
a
Jewish
usurer
,
but
he
could
not
be
equally
despised
.
It
is
besides
probable
,
considering
the
wonderful
cures
they
are
said
to
have
performed
,
that
the
Jews
possessed
some
secrets
of
the
healing
art
peculiar
to
themselves
,
and
which
,
with
the
exclusive
spirit
arising
out
of
their
condition
,
they
took
great
care
to
conceal
from
the
Christians
amongst
whom
they
dwelt
.
The
beautiful
Rebecca
had
been
heedfully
brought
up
in
all
the
knowledge
proper
to
her
nation
,
which
her
apt
and
powerful
mind
had
retained
,
arranged
,
and
enlarged
,
in
the
course
of
a
progress
beyond
her
years
,
her
sex
,
and
even
the
age
in
which
she
lived
.
Her
knowledge
of
medicine
and
of
the
healing
art
had
been
acquired
under
an
aged
Jewess
,
the
daughter
of
one
of
their
most
celebrated
doctors
,
who
loved
Rebecca
as
her
own
child
,
and
was
believed
to
have
communicated
to
her
secrets
,
which
had
been
left
to
herself
by
her
sage
father
at
the
same
time
,
and
under
the
same
circumstances
.
The
fate
of
Miriam
had
indeed
been
to
fall
a
sacrifice
to
the
fanaticism
of
the
times
;
but
her
secrets
had
survived
in
her
apt
pupil
.
Rebecca
,
thus
endowed
with
knowledge
as
with
beauty
,
was
universally
revered
and
admired
by
her
own
tribe
,
who
almost
regarded
her
as
one
of
those
gifted
women
mentioned
in
the
sacred
history
.
Her
father
himself
,
out
of
reverence
for
her
talents
,
which
involuntarily
mingled
itself
with
his
unbounded
affection
,
permitted
the
maiden
a
greater
liberty
than
was
usually
indulged
to
those
of
her
sex
by
the
habits
of
her
people
,
and
was
,
as
we
have
just
seen
,
frequently
guided
by
her
opinion
,
even
in
preference
to
his
own
.
When
Ivanhoe
reached
the
habitation
of
Isaac
,
he
was
still
in
a
state
of
unconsciousness
,
owing
to
the
profuse
loss
of
blood
which
had
taken
place
during
his
exertions
in
the
lists
.
Rebecca
examined
the
wound
,
and
having
applied
to
it
such
vulnerary
remedies
as
her
art
prescribed
,
informed
her
father
that
if
fever
could
be
averted
,
of
which
the
great
bleeding
rendered
her
little
apprehensive
,
and
if
the
healing
balsam
of
Miriam
retained
its
virtue
,
there
was
nothing
to
fear
for
his
guest
's
life
,
and
that
he
might
with
safety
travel
to
York
with
them
on
the
ensuing
day
.
Isaac
looked
a
little
blank
at
this
annunciation
.
His
charity
would
willingly
have
stopped
short
at
Ashby
,
or
at
most
would
have
left
the
wounded
Christian
to
be
tended
in
the
house
where
he
was
residing
at
present
,
with
an
assurance
to
the
Hebrew
to
whom
it
belonged
,
that
all
expenses
should
be
duly
discharged
.
To
this
,
however
,
Rebecca
opposed
many
reasons
,
of
which
we
shall
only
mention
two
that
had
peculiar
weight
with
Isaac
.
The
one
was
,
that
she
would
on
no
account
put
the
phial
of
precious
balsam
into
the
hands
of
another
physician
even
of
her
own
tribe
,
lest
that
valuable
mystery
should
be
discovered
;
the
other
,
that
this
wounded
knight
,
Wilfred
of
Ivanhoe
,
was
an
intimate
favourite
of
Richard
Coeur-de-Lion
,
and
that
,
in
case
the
monarch
should
return
,
Isaac
,
who
had
supplied
his
brother
John
with
treasure
to
prosecute
his
rebellious
purposes
,
would
stand
in
no
small
need
of
a
powerful
protector
who
enjoyed
Richard
's
favour
.
"
Thou
art
speaking
but
sooth
,
Rebecca
,
"
said
Isaac
,
giving
way
to
these
weighty
arguments
--
"
it
were
an
offending
of
Heaven
to
betray
the
secrets
of
the
blessed
Miriam
;
for
the
good
which
Heaven
giveth
,
is
not
rashly
to
be
squandered
upon
others
,
whether
it
be
talents
of
gold
and
shekels
of
silver
,
or
whether
it
be
the
secret
mysteries
of
a
wise
physician
--
assuredly
they
should
be
preserved
to
those
to
whom
Providence
hath
vouchsafed
them
.
And
him
whom
the
Nazarenes
of
England
call
the
Lion
's
Heart
,
assuredly
it
were
better
for
me
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
a
strong
lion
of
Idumea
than
into
his
,
if
he
shall
have
got
assurance
of
my
dealing
with
his
brother
.
Wherefore
I
will
lend
ear
to
thy
counsel
,
and
this
youth
shall
journey
with
us
unto
York
,
and
our
house
shall
be
as
a
home
to
him
until
his
wounds
shall
be
healed
.
And
if
he
of
the
Lion
Heart
shall
return
to
the
land
,
as
is
now
noised
abroad
,
then
shall
this
Wilfred
of
Ivanhoe
be
unto
me
as
a
wall
of
defence
,
when
the
king
's
displeasure
shall
burn
high
against
thy
father
.
And
if
he
doth
not
return
,
this
Wilfred
may
natheless
repay
us
our
charges
when
he
shall
gain
treasure
by
the
strength
of
his
spear
and
of
his
sword
,
even
as
he
did
yesterday
and
this
day
also
.
For
the
youth
is
a
good
youth
,
and
keepeth
the
day
which
he
appointeth
,
and
restoreth
that
which
he
borroweth
,
and
succoureth
the
Israelite
,
even
the
child
of
my
father
's
house
,
when
he
is
encompassed
by
strong
thieves
and
sons
of
Belial
.
"
It
was
not
until
evening
was
nearly
closed
that
Ivanhoe
was
restored
to
consciousness
of
his
situation
.
He
awoke
from
a
broken
slumber
,
under
the
confused
impressions
which
are
naturally
attendant
on
the
recovery
from
a
state
of
insensibility
.
He
was
unable
for
some
time
to
recall
exactly
to
memory
the
circumstances
which
had
preceded
his
fall
in
the
lists
,
or
to
make
out
any
connected
chain
of
the
events
in
which
he
had
been
engaged
upon
the
yesterday
.
A
sense
of
wounds
and
injury
,
joined
to
great
weakness
and
exhaustion
,
was
mingled
with
the
recollection
of
blows
dealt
and
received
,
of
steeds
rushing
upon
each
other
,
overthrowing
and
overthrown
--
of
shouts
and
clashing
of
arms
,
and
all
the
heady
tumult
of
a
confused
fight
.
An
effort
to
draw
aside
the
curtain
of
his
couch
was
in
some
degree
successful
,
although
rendered
difficult
by
the
pain
of
his
wound
.
