Barral (Dr Francisco António)
Original title: Barral (Dr. Francisco Antonio)
Lisbon physician and medical professor who attended Princess Maria Amélia in Madeira in 1852–53, helped found the Princess's hospice and wrote a valued study of Funchal's climate and tuberculosis.
This distinguished physician and professor at the Lisbon Medical School accompanied Empress Amélie to Madeira in 1852, as attending physician to the ill-fated Princess Maria Amélia, who died in this city on 4 February 1853 (see Amélia (Empress Dona) and Hospices of Princess Dona Maria Amélia).
Dr Barral was one of the most devoted helpers of Empress Amélie in the provisional foundation of the hospice (hospício), which began operating in a house on Rua do Castanheiro.
In 1854 Dr Barral published in Lisbon, in a volume of 347 pages, the work entitled Noticia sobre o clima do Funchal e sua influencia do tratamento da phthisica pulmonar, which is regarded as a very valuable study of the subject. It was translated into French by Dr P. Garnier and published in Paris in 1858 under the title Climat de Madère et son influence thérapeutique sur la pthisie pulmonaire.
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Time
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Empress Amélia of Brazil and Princess Maria Amélia, who travelled on medical advice, arrived in Funchal aboard the frigate D. Fernando, accompanied by Dr Barral; the council named a street after the princess.
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Princess D. Maria Amélia, daughter of Empress Amélia, died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the Quinta das Angústias in Funchal.
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Dr Francisco António Barral published in Lisbon his study of Funchal's climate and pulmonary phthisis.
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Dr P. Garnier's French translation of Barral's work on the climate of Madeira was published in Paris.
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- Funchal
Subject of Barral's climate study and where the princess died.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Rua do Castanheiro
Funchal. Street where the provisional hospice first operated.
Rua do Castanheiro is a Funchal street named after a giant chestnut tree and widened in the 1840s, at the initiative of civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro, using land from the former Jesuit college. It contained the Casa de D. Guiomar, the military hospital's first site, and the provisional hospice that opened in 1853, and later housed the Clube Washington.
People
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Professor at the Lisbon Medical School who attended Princess Maria Amélia in Funchal and wrote on its climate.
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Empress of Brazil who came to Madeira in 1852 and founded the hospice in her daughter's memory.
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Translated Barral's climate study into French (Paris, 1858).
- Princess Maria Améliad. 1853
Princess who died of tuberculosis in Funchal on 4 February 1853, attended by Barral.