Ma’a’seh Toviyah
Venice, 1708. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine.
Toviyah Kats
(ca. 1652-1729)
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This illustration from a Hebrew encyclopedia pairs the interior of a human interior with the interior of a house, a visual metaphor: the organs, like rooms in a house, have different functions. Kats, one of the first Jews to study medicine at a German university, completed his degree at Padua and served as court physician to the Ottoman Sultan.