Person physician surgeon health delegate
António da Luz Pita
1802–1870
physician · surgeon · health delegate · politician
António da Luz Pita (1802–1870) was a Madeiran physician and surgeon from Ponta do Sol, trained in Montpellier and Paris. He served as health delegate, teacher at the Funchal Medical School and deputy in parliament, and led the medical response to the cholera epidemic. He was also the first clinical director of the Hospício da Princesa Dona Maria Amélia.
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- Misericórdias — Physician named in the title of Camara Leme's 1869 pamphlet on the medical school and the health delegation.
- Angústias (cemetery) — Notable Madeiran buried in the Angústias cemetery.
- Scientific expeditions — Madeiran physician who informed the Novara scientists in 1857.
- Historical dates — Madeiran physician, died 1870.
- Princess Maria Amélia Hospice — Madeiran physician, first clinical director of the hospice and the Empress's agent in buying its land.
- Andrade (Dean António Joaquim Gonçalves de) — Helper of Empress Amélia in founding the Hospício alongside Andrade.
- Mourão Pita (Dr César Augusto) — Distinguished physician who adopted César Augusto Mourão Pita as an infant when his family passed through Funchal.
- Political Parties — Cabralist editor of O Archivista and A Ordem, later in the Popular party.
- Fernandes da Silva (Dr Julião) — Madeiran physician presumed earlier owner of the copies.
- Ponta do Sol (parish) — Distinguished native of Ponta do Sol.
- Nóbrega (Januário Justiniano de) — Madeiran writer whose periodicals Nóbrega also contributed to.
- Couceiro (António Rogério Gromicho) — Madeiran physician and deputy who obtained relief from Lisbon during the 1856 cholera epidemic and organised clinical and hospital work on the island.
- Medical-Surgical School — Replaced Lourenço Moniz as professor, presided over the first council and directed the school 1845–66.
- Asylum for Invalids — Presided over the 1844 commission appointed to propose the creation of an asylum for beggars.
- Cholera morbus in 1856 and 1910 — Madeira's delegate of the kingdom's health council and deputy, who brought government relief from Lisbon in 1856.
- Canavial (Count of) — Physician named with Canavial as the two great medical figures of 19th-century Madeira.
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