Introduction to His Translations

In this excerpt from his introduction to his list of translations, Do’eg explains his rationale for embarking on the project: important medical works were inaccessible to Hebrew-reading physicians. Do’eg wished to introduce Jewish medical professionals to Latin knowledge in order for them to take better care of their patients. Here, he feels the need to justify this project, responding to the idea that medicine was not an appropriate topic of study, and elsewhere in the introduction, that non-Jewish wisdom need not enter the Jewish world.