May a person in pain nurse from an animal on Shabbat?

ShabbatMedical Treatment

Synopsis

One in pain may nurse directly from an animal since in a case of pain the rabbis did not apply their decree. A dissenting view holds that if the pain is merely hunger, it is forbidden.

Early Acharonim
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Lesser cited
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