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Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.

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Bronze Physician’s Mortar

Servius de Levis

16th Century

Illustration of bloodletting knife on right side of a manuscript page, with Judeo-Arabic text surrounding.

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Phlebotomy knife

Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji

18th Century

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

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

David Pina

1678

Facing-page manuscript with illustration on right page depicting individual lying on operating table with two men in curly wigs in coats and breeches holding down his wrists and feet and another with his hand on patient's shoulders; and left page with Portuguese text only.

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Surgical Illustration

Samuel Benavente

1699

Open page spread with left hand page illustration of woman changing child's diaper with English text above about the mother changing her son's diaper, and right hand page illustration with child sitting on toilet and English text above about child running to sit on his potty.

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Once upon a Potty—Boy

Alona Frankel

1975

Photograph featuring four young girls holding onto each other's shoulders walking down the stairs in a train with two older women in the front and back.

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Blind Women, Egypt

Lori Grinker

1995

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‘Olam hafukh (The World Upside Down)

Abraham Catalano

1631

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Diary

Meir ben Ephraim of Padua

1541–1580

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Sefer ha-zikhronot (The Book of Memories)

1685

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Sefer ha-ḥezyonot (The Book of Visions): On the Afterlife

Ḥayim Vital

Second Half of the 16th Century

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Toledot ha-ari (Life of the Ari)

1534–1572

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Ma’amarim bi-refu’ah (Chapters on Healing)

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Last Quarter of the 17th Century