Article Nº 3533 Physician or health professional Vol. III · p. 571
Sousa Vaz (Dr F. de Assis)
Original title: Sousa Vaz (Dr. F. de Assis)
Author of an 1832 Paris treatise praising Madeira's climate for treating pulmonary tuberculosis, written without visiting the island.
Works: De l'influence salutaire du climat de Madere dans le traitement de la phthisie pulmonaire, et de la superiorite de cette influence sur celle des climats du sud de la France et de l'Italie, Paris, 1832. It is a short work, but in it the author, although he had no first-hand knowledge of Madeira, sets out the advantages of this island’s climate in the treatment of lung diseases.
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