Commentary for Yoma 165:11

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> מי שאחזו בולמוס מאכילין אותו אפי' דברים טמאים עד שיאורו עיניו מי שנשכו כלב שוטה אין מאכילין אותו מחצר כבד שלו ור' מתיא בן חרש מתיר

HE MAY BE GIVEN TO EAT EVEN UNCLEAN THINGS UNTIL HIS EYES ARE ENLIGHTENED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. I Sam. XIV, 27. Such ravenous hunger renders the eyes dull.');">¹¹</span> IF ONE WAS BIT BY A MAD DOG, HE MAY NOT GIVE HIM TO EAT THE LOBE OF ITS LIVER, BUT R'MATTHIA B. HERESH PERMITS IT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That was considered a cure: a fore-runner of modern homeopathics. The Tanna who forbids it denies its curative value, hence its use is forbidden. Matthia b. Heresh believed in this cure, hence permitted it.');">¹²</span> FURTHERMORE DID R'MATTHIA B. HERESH SAY: IF ONE HAS PAIN IN HIS THROAT, HE MAY POUR MEDICINE INTO HIS MOUTH ON THE SABBATH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The dispute here concerns not the principle, but the efficacy, of the proposed medicines.');">¹³</span>

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