Note 232 — THE LOVES OF AL-HAYFA AND YUSUF.[177]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Needless to say that amongst Moslems, as amongst Christians, the Israelite medicineman has always been a favourite, despite an injunction in the “Díním” (Religious Considerations) of the famous Andalusian Yúsuf Caro. This most fanatical work, much studied at Tiberias and Safet (where a printing-press was established in the xvith century) decides that a Jewish doctor called to attend a Goi (Gentile) too poor to pay him is bound to poison his patient—if he safely can.