Bernardino António Gomes Jr.
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Bernardino António Gomes CavTE ComC ComSE (22 September 1806 – 8 April 1877)[1] was a Portuguese physician and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as the first physician in the country to use chloroform in a surgical procedure (on 12 January 1848, during a knee tumorectomy); he is also credited with the popularization of the use of creosote and of the first ether inhalers.[2]
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Bernardino António Gomes Jr. | |
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First Physician of the Royal Chamber | |
In office January 1864 – April 1877 | |
Monarch | Luís I of Portugal |
Preceded by | The Baron of Silveira |
Succeeded by | José Eduardo de Magalhães Coutinho |
Personal details | |
Born | (1806-09-22)22 September 1806 Santa Marinha do Outeiro, Lisbon, Portugal |
Died | 8 April 1877(1877-04-08) (aged 70) São José, Lisbon, Portugal |
Spouse |
Maria Leocádia Fernandes Tavares de Barros
(m. 1837; died 1854) |
Alma mater | University of Coimbra Faculté de Médecine de Paris |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine, Anaesthesiology |
Institutions | Royal Naval Hospital Saint Joseph's Hospital |
Thesis | Dissertation sur les vers plats articulés qui existent chez l'homme, ou considérations sur la détermination de leurs espèces, des maladies qu'ils occasionnent, et du traitement qu'ils convient mieux de leur opposer (1831) |
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