Amato Lusitano
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Castelo Branco Municipality |
| Portugal | |
| Died | Thessaloniki |
| Greece | |
| Field | Physician |
| Job | Physician |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1432487 |
Amato Lusitano Life story
João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus, 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.
