Rodrigues (Dr José Agostinho)
Original title: Rodrigues (Dr. José Agostinho)
Funchal-born army physician (b. 1864) who rose to colonel and deputy director of the War Ministry's medical services, and served in France with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
He was born in Funchal on 1 October 1864. He qualified as a physician and surgeon at the Lisbon Medical and Surgical School (Escola Médico-cirúrgica de Lisboa) and was appointed army medical lieutenant on 15 November 1894. He served for many years in the 27th Infantry Regiment (regimento de infantaria n.° 27), and at present holds the rank of colonel, serving as deputy director in the Directorate-General of Medical Services (Direcção Geral dos Serviços Médicos) of the Ministry of War. He was in France with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (C. E. P.) and has contributed to various Madeiran newspapers. In 1890 he published the thesis he defended on completing his medical course, entitled A opportunidade da laparotomia nas perfurações traumáticas gastro-intestinais (1921).
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- France
Where he served with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in the First World War.
France is a country where several Madeirans fought and died in the First World War, including Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia and João Paulo da Veiga Pestana. It was also a place of study, of exile and of refuge for Madeirans. It was the origin of the expedition behind the Saque dos Franceses and the intended destination of the fugitives in the Machim legend.
- Funchal
His birthplace.
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.
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People mentioned · 01- José Agostinho Rodriguesb. 1864
Madeiran army surgeon and colonel, deputy director of the War Ministry's medical services, subject of this entry.