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Judaica / Zionisim - Portuguese Jewish Physician Amatus Lustitanus Amatvs Lvstianvs Bronze medal - 1968
Judaica / Zionisim – Portuguese Jewish Physician Amatus Lustitanus Amatvs Lvstianvs Bronze medal – 1968
João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus (1511–1568), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus, Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus, Realdo Colombo and William Harvey, he is credited as making a discovery in the circulation of the blood. He is said to have discovered the function of the valves in the circulation of the blood.