sentences:  Joseph ha-Kohen wrote also a Hebrew version, with the title "Meqitz Nirdamim", of Meïr Alguadez's Spanish medical work giving prescriptions for the healing of various diseases; to these prescriptions he added some of his own.Less known is his work upon the New World.In his world-chronicle there is a reference to Columbus (whom, however, he confounds with Amerigo Vespucci); the work is very meager in its information.