Zacutus Lusitanus
Zacutus Lusitanus · Science & Medicine
Renaissance physician and author of influential works on clinical medicine and therapeutics
1575, Lisbon, Portugal — 1642, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Portugal · Netherlands
Zacutus Lusitanus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Renaissance physician and author of influential works on clinical medicine and therapeutics
Zacutus Lusitanus (Abraham Zacuto) was a Portuguese physician whose treatises, especially 'De Medicorum Principum Historia' and 'Praxis Historiarum,' were widely used surveys of clinical medicine, therapeutics and medical history. Born a New Christian of a converso Jewish family, he practised in Lisbon before fleeing the Inquisition to Amsterdam, where he openly returned to Judaism. He descended from the astronomer and mathematician Abraham Zacuto.
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Renaissance physician and author of influential works on clinical medicine and therapeutics
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