Article Nº 3557 Physician or health professional Vol. III · p. 599
Tams (Dr George)
Original title: Tams (Dr. George)
German physician on a commercial expedition to West Africa that called at Porto Santo in 1841, who wrote an account of it.
Physician to a commercial expedition to the west coast of Africa organised by Ribeiro dos Santos, Portuguese consul in Altona. The expedition’s ships called at the island of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’) in July 1841. Dr Tams wrote a work about the expedition in which he took part, with the following title: Portugiesische Besitzungem in Sud West Afrika Mit einem Vorworte von Prof. Carl. Ritter; Hamburg, 1845. This work has been translated into Portuguese and English.
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