Commentary for Niddah 44:6
אין והתניא א"ר אלעזר בר' צדוק שני מעשים העלה אבא מטבעין ליבנה
to Jamnia. It once happened that a woman was aborting objects like pieces of red rind and the people came and asked my father, and my father asked the Sages, and the Sages asked the physicians who explained to them that that woman had an internal sore [the crust] of which she cast out in the shape of the pieces of red rind. [It was ruled that] she should put them in water and if they dissolved she should be declared unclean. And yet another incident occurred when a woman was aborting objects like red hairs, and she came and asked my father, and my father asked the Sages, and the Sages asked the physicians who explained to them that the woman had a wart<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From which grew hairs. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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