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Tobias the Physician (Tuviah ha-Rofe) and the Dawn of Modern Jewish Medicine

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Region: Europe centrale, Empire ottoman

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Tuviah Cohn (1652-1729), a physician trained in Frankfurt and Padua, published in 1707 Maaseh Tuviya, a Hebrew encyclopedia combining medicine, astronomy, anatomy, and hygiene. His work presents a diagram comparing the human body to a house and introduced European scientific advances to the Hebrew-reading public. He served at the court of the Ottoman sultans.

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