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Show Shapes of Heads. In the New Work Medical Record Dr. David I. Macht of Baltimore, noting not-ing various malformations of the head that are met with by the modern clinician, clini-cian, speaks of three that are enumer ated in the Talmud which disqualified one from ministering as a priest. These are named as the "kilon," the "lafton" and the "maqbon." The condition of kilon is described as that of a person having a peculiarly shaped head, pointed point-ed at the top and broad at the bottom. The lafton was a head shaped exactly the opposite of the kilon. To use the expression of the Talmud, he had a head like a "lefes," that is a pumpkin (or gourd). The expression "maqbon" was derived from the word hammer, and the Talmud described this hammerhead ham-merhead as one with a projecting forehead fore-head and occiput. Every student of the Bible is aware of the fact that the Hebrew priest was required to be "without bodily defect or blemish" In order to be eligible to service in the temple, a provision set forth in the twenty-first chapter of Leviticus. |