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Thirteenth century Jewish physician
Abraham of
Aragon
was a
Jewish
physician
specializing in
diseases of the eye
who flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century CE. Shortly after the
Council of Beziers
, in 1246 had forbidden Jewish physicians to practise, Abraham was requested by
Alphonse Capet
,
count of Poitou
and
Toulouse
, and brother of
Louis IX of France
, to treat him for an infection of the eye. The count at first implored Abraham's help in vain; for he, being a man of independent spirit, held stoutly to the opinion that even the brother of a king was not exempt from the decree of a council. It was only after the
seigneur
of
Lunel
, with the assistance of his Jewish agent, had persistently pleaded with Abraham that the latter consented to cure the count.
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