Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide)

David Pina

1678

Manuscript page with Latin text and small illustration of man standing beneath a tree.
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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David Pina

17th Century

David Pina was a Portuguese Jewish physician who practiced medicine in Amsterdam in the second half of the seventeenth century. He studied medicine in Leiden and was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine on May 18, 1678. His dissertation was dedicated to Isaac Aboab de Fonseca and Moses Raphael d’Aguilar, rabbis of the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. Pina was also a preacher of some fame in the community.

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