Sabbatai Donnolo
Sabbatai Donnolo · Science & Medicine
Byzantine-Italian physician; wrote the Sefer ha-Yakar, an early pharmacological antidotary
913, Oria, Byzantine southern Italy — c. 982
Southern Italy (Oria, Rossano)
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Donnolo was a Byzantine-Italian Jewish physician, astronomer and one of the earliest writers on medicine in Hebrew in Christian Europe. His 'Sefer ha-Yakar' (Book of the Precious) was a practical antidotary and pharmacological handbook, and his 'Sefer Hakhmoni' offered an early Hebrew commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah blending medicine, astronomy and Kabbalistic cosmology. He was a professing Jew, captured as a youth during an Arab raid on Oria.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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Byzantine-Italian physician; wrote the Sefer ha-Yakar, an early pharmacological antidotary
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
