Amatus Lusitanus
Amatus Lusitanus · Science & Medicine
Renaissance physician who described the valves of the veins and advanced clinical medicine.
1511, Castelo Branco, Portugal — 1568, Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Portugal · Italy · Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki)
Amatus Lusitanus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Renaissance physician who described the valves of the veins and advanced clinical medicine.
Amatus Lusitanus was a Renaissance physician whose careful clinical case histories advanced medical observation, and who is credited with early descriptions of the valves of the veins. Persecution forced him to move across Europe before settling in the Ottoman Empire. He was Jewish, born into a Portuguese converso (New Christian) family who openly returned to Judaism in later life.
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Renaissance physician who described the valves of the veins and advanced clinical medicine.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
