This allusion to the Chazon Ish having read medical journals or books in his younger years crops up from time to time. My question is: in what language were those books/journals written? It’s hard to imagine there were any Hebrew language medical books at the beginning of the previous century. It’s highly unlikely although I suppose possible that the Chazon Ish read English or German. Medical books in Yiddish? Well, highly unlikely at best. So what sort of books could he have read? I posed this question to a member of the Greinman family a few months ago, and he agreed with my supposition that it was unlikely that the Chazon Ish read any medical books. On the other hand, Rav Gedalia Nadel was extremely close to the Chazon Ish and was in a position to know about this. Maybe Rav Gedalia’s sons know something about this.
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