Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide)
This is the title page of Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide), David Pina’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden. Pina was a Portuguese Jewish physician who practiced medicine in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He was also a well-known preacher in the Jewish community.
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Collection Ets Haim - Livraria Montezinos, Amsterdam, EH 2F 60.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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