Portuguese physician and author, born in Portugal and becoming Brazilian (1822), who lived in Lisbon and Brazil and was one of the great physicians of his time. Graduated from the University of Coimbra, he became Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Doctor of the Royal Chamber and Knight of the Order of Christ. When Napoleon ordered the invasion of Portugal, for political reasons, he was arrested and exiled to Bahia. At the coronation (1816) of D. John VI, obtained clemency. Admired by the Count of Palma, Governor of the Captaincy of Bahia, he was authorized to teach Pharmacy, by virtue of a Royal Letter of 29 November (1819). Afterwards, the emperor appointed him Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1824) at the Colégio Médico-Cirúrgico da Bahia.
As an author, he published the most, and there are several volumes intended for reading and use by lay people. Some even came out as a Notice to the People, with teachings about first aid, about poisoning, about taking care of children, about epidemics, etc. He died in Bahia, his most important work being the Directory to know the way, and the time to administer the fluid volatile alkali in asphyxia, or apparent deaths, in drowned, in apoplexy, in the bite of a viper, snails and other insects, in burns, in rabies, and many other illnesses, Lisbon, in Régia Oficina Tipografia (1782). He has also published translated works by foreign authors such as the Domestic Medicine or Treatise version. to prevent and cure illnesses, with the regiment and simple medicines, written in English by the dr.
Guilherme Buchan, translated into Portuguese with several notes and observations concerning the climate of Portugal and Brazil, with the corresponding prescription, and an appendix on naval hospitals, surgical medicine, as well as elements of physical physiology and pathological. In its extensive bibliography, the following were also highlighted: Dissertatio Medica, Madrid (1776), Directory to know the way and time to administer alkaline fluid volatile in asphyxia, Lisbon (1782), Exhibitions of chemical means of purifying the air of ships, Lisbon (1798), New, easy and simple method of cure the wounds of the pillory, etc., Lisbon (1801), Naval Pharmacopoeia, Lisbon (1807), Memory on the encephalocele, Bahia (1815) and Dictionary of Botany, Bahia (1819).
Source: Biographies - Academic Unit of Civil Engineering / UFCG
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