Amatus Lusitanus discovered valves in veins and arteries.
Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568) was born to a family of crypto-Jews in the city of Castelo- Branco as João Rodrigues de Castelo-Branco. In 1497[1] his family had been forcibly converted to Christianity, all historical evidences of the family were lost. We assume some years later he moved to Ancona, where he waited for permission to transfer [...]
Maimonides, The Physician
Moshe ben Maimon or Maimonides was the most important Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. His writings on the Torah are well known. What is less well known is the fact that he was also the most important Jewish physician of the Middle Ages. When forced to convert to Islam by the Almohad dynasty in [...]
Jewish Philosophy Influenced Crypto-Jewish Practice of Medicine
After the disruptions of the many expulsions of Jews from most West European kingdoms from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries¸ it is no wonder that Jews as medical practitioners tended almost everywhere to fade away. The two places where they remained in evidence, however, were those lands where major disasters had not yet taken [...]
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