Article Nº 3458 Physician or health professional Vol. III · p. 547
Silva (Dr Cândido Joaquim da)
Original title: Silva (Dr. Cândido Joaquim da)
Cândido Joaquim da Silva, known locally as Dr. Silvado, was a Funchal-born physician who took his doctorate at Montpellier in 1830.
He was born in Funchal in 1806 and took his doctorate in medicine at the Montpellier faculty in 1830. Works: Considérations générales sur la syphilis (thesis). He died of a cerebral apoplexy on 8 February 1879. Here in Madeira he was known as Dr Silvado.
People mentioned
- Cândido Joaquim da Silva 1806–1879
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