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Medical-Critical Letter Written by Doctor Joseph Vita Castelli to His Friend, a Doctor, Regarding a Serious and Complicated Case of Acute Fever
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Art, which gives men the means to persevere and cure some sicknesses, seems nowadays to depend on philosophy, which is that great and clear source that produces all that is luminous and useful. I am…

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Joseph Vita Castelli

Places:

Livorno, Holy Roman Empire (Livorno, Italy)

Date:

1774

Subjects:

Philosophy, Medicine, Health, Politics

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Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Letter to a Nursing Convention in St. Louis
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion. Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…

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Rose Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Health, Medicine, Poverty, Mizrahi, Israel/Israelis

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Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Rabbis of Schwerin to Moses Mendelssohn
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Schwerin, 18 May 1772 15 Iyar 5532 to the Jewish counting To the man possessed of abundant dominion, wisdom, and understanding, renowned for his knowledge, whose name is spoken of in the far-flung…

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Rabbis of Schwerin

Places:

Schwerin, Kingdom of Prussia (Schwerin, Germany)
Berlin, Germany

Date:

1772

Subjects:

Government, Death, Burial, Halakhah, Medicine

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Religion & Theology, Letters, Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts