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This engraving by Willem Jacobsz Delff is based on an earlier portrait of scholar Joseph Solomon Delmedigo by Willem Cornelisz Duyster.
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Willem Jacobsz
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Delft, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Delft, Netherlands)
Date:
1628
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This is an image of the physician Abraham Zacutus, of Amsterdam. A physician and writer of medical works, Abraham Zacutus was born in Lisbon and later studied medicine in Coimbra and Salamanca, in…
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Salomon Saveri
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1634
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Emanuel Colli by the University of Padua, Italy. Designed as a small, illuminated book, its four leaves are decorated with floral borders, and include…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1692
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This illustration of a phlebotomy knife appears in an eighteenth-century Judeo-Arabic medical manuscript. Bloodletting, thought to balance the humors of the body, was an accepted medical treatment at…
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji
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18th Century
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This depiction of a Jewish doctor is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also created the illustrations in the book. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1568
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
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16th Century
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The physician and surgeon Issachar Baer Teller received his medical training by studying and practicing with other physicians in Prague. He completed his studies under the guidance of Joseph Solomon…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1637
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These pages are from a manuscript, De dificuldade de ourinar (On Difficulty in Urinating), by a Jewish physician and surgeon in Amsterdam, Samuel de Leon Benavente (1643–1722). He was known for his…
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1699
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
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Lillian Wald
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Rembrandt van Rijn lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artists’ guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located. By coincidence, it was also home to a number of Jews. Rembrandt’s artworks attest to an…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Date:
1647