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 | São José , Lisbon, Portugal | 22 September 1806
Spouse |
Maria Leocádia Fernandes Tavares de Barros
(m. 1837; died 1854) |
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) |
Bernardino António Gomes
Biography
Bernardino António Gomes was the son of noted physician, pioneering
He first studied
Bernardino António Gomes distinguished himself during the yellow fever and cholera epidemics that ravaged the country in the 1850s. He was sent as a national delegate to the third of the International Sanitary Conferences (in Constantinople, 1866); in opposition to Pettenkofer's anti-contagionism that dominated the scientific thinking of the conference, Bernardino António Gomes was a staunch defender of the theory of contagion and considered it advisable to ban all maritime communication to quell the ongoing cholera pandemic that had begun in the Ganges Delta, "to combat the scourge in the very countries in which it is born or, at least, to halt its progress as near as possible to its original home" (measures that were opposed, notably, by the delegates from the United Kingdom).[4][5]
In 1858, Bernardino António Gomes became embroiled in a heated
He was appointed First Physician of the Royal Chamber in 1864, by King Luís I, following the death of Francisco Elias Rodrigues da Silveira, 1st Baron of Silveira; Gomes refused the title of Baron that was customarily bestowed upon those filling that position at court.[2] Previously, he had already been a personal physician to his brother and predecessor King Peter V — Bernardino António Gomes was responsible for conducting and publicising the results of the King's autopsy in 1861, when tensions were running high as three deaths in quick succession within the Royal Family (the King, Infante John, Duke of Beja and Infante Ferdinand) had made the public suspicious of foul play and threaten to mutiny; he attributed the deaths to typhoid fever.[7]
On two different occasions, in 1843–4 and 1864–6, Bernardino António Gomes served as President of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences.[8]
As a natural historian, Bernardino António Gomes published an exhaustive review of the fossil flora of the Carboniferous systems in Portugal (1865), and was a contributor in the Catalogus Plantarum Horti Botanici Medico-Cirurgicae Scholae Olisiponensis (1851).[8] He also oversaw the committee in charge of creating the 1876 Portuguese Pharmacopoeia, the first time the country's official pharmaceutical reference work was drawn up by a committee of select physicians and chemists.[9]
He married Maria Leocádia Fernandes Tavares de Barros (1818–1854) in the parish of
Distinctions
National orders
- Order of the Tower and Sword[2]
- Order of Christ[2]
- Commander of the Order of Saint James of the Sword[2]
Foreign orders
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)[2]
- Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy)[1]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Pereira e Sousa, F. (1890). "Dr. Bernardino Antonio Gomes". A Imprensa (in Portuguese). No. 65. Lisbon. pp. 132–134. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Lopes, Alfredo Luiz (1890). O Hospital de Todos os Santos hoje denominado de S. José: Contribuições para a Historia das Sciencias Medicas em Portugal [All Saints' Hospital, today called of Saint Joseph: Contributions for the History of Medical Sciences in Portugal] (in Portuguese). Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional. pp. 72–74.
- ^ a b Livro de Registo de Baptismos 1806/1818 (fl. 19 v.), Paróquia de Santa Engrácia, Lisboa – Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
- hdl:10665/62873. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ISSN 1645-2259. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- hdl:10071/3836. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ISBN 9789896582746.
- ^ a b "Bernardino Gomes (1843/1844 e 1864/1866)" (in Portuguese). Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ISSN 2182-3340. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ Livro de Registo de Casamentos 1834/1848 (fl. 137), Paróquia da Encarnação, Lisboa – Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
- ^ International Plant Names Index. B.A.Gomes.
External links
- Media related to Bernardino António Gomes Jr. at Wikimedia Commons