Here is a companion picture from Yoma, fol. 84, col. 1. — " Rabbi Yochanan was suffering from scurvy, and he applied to a Gentile woman, who prepared a remedy for the fifth and then the sixth day of the week. ( But what shall I do to-morrow? said he; ( I must not walk so far on the Sabbath.* (Thou wilt not require any more,* she answered. <But suppose I do,* he replied. (Take an oath,* she answered, (that thou wilt not reveal it, and I will tell thee how to compound the remedy.
This he did in the following words: ( By the God of Israel, I swear I will not divulge it.* Nevertheless, when he learned the secret, he went and revealed it. <But was not that profaning the name of God?* asks one. (No,* pleads another Rabbi, < for, as he told her afterward, that what he meant was that he would not tell it to the God of Israel.* The remedy was yeast, water, oil, and salt."