List of Famous people with last name Lusitano

Amato Lusitano

First Name Amato
Last Name Lusitano
Born on January 1, 1511
Died on January 21, 1568 (aged 57)

João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus (1511–1568), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus, Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus, Realdo Colombo and William Harvey, he is credited as making a discovery in the circulation of the blood. He is said to have discovered the function of the valves in the circulation of the blood.

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