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Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Goa
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Muito antes da fundação da Escola Médico-Cirúrgica, era já ministrado em Goa o ensino médico, embora rudimentar, no célebre Hospital Real, o mais belo e o mais bem apetrechado Hospital do mundo, na frase dos viajantes Le Blanc e Pyrard. Fixa-se o seu início em 1703, tendo como mestre Cipriano Valadares. Dois factos essenciais foram sem dúvida a pedra angular em que assentou esse ensino: a falta de aissistência médico-sanitária· e a· especial receptividade do goês para a aprendizagem de ciências médicas. ·É que a partir das últimas décadas do século XVI a insalubridade da Velha Cidade de Goa ia crescendo. À densidade populacional elevada juntava a falta de higiene e de assistência médica. A sua população de 400.000 habitantes, dizimada por endemias mortíferas, um século depois, em 1670, ficava reduzida a 40.000! «Até essa época, escreve o Prof. Germano Correia (1). a morte ceifara já alguns vice reis, muitos fidalgos e inquisidores, quase todos vítimas de febres que não pareciam mortais, conforme a fraseologia da época”.
Long before the founding of the School of Medicine and Surgery, medical education was already being provided in Goa, albeit in a rudimentary form, at the famous Royal Hospital, described by the travellers Le Blanc and Pyrard as the most beautiful and best-equipped hospital in the world. Its beginnings are dated to 1703, with Cipriano Valadares as its head. Two key factors were undoubtedly the cornerstone upon which this education was built: the lack of medical and sanitary care, and the particular receptiveness of the Goans to learning medical sciences. For from the last decades of the 16th century, the unsanitary conditions of the Old City of Goa were growing. High population density was compounded by a lack of hygiene and medical care. Its population of 400,000 inhabitants, decimated by deadly epidemics, had been reduced to 40,000 a century later, in 1670! ‘By that time,’ writes Prof. Germano Correia (1), ‘death had already claimed several viceroys, many noblemen and inquisitors, almost all victims of fevers that did not seem fatal, according to the terminology of the time.’
Long before the founding of the School of Medicine and Surgery, medical education was already being provided in Goa, albeit in a rudimentary form, at the famous Royal Hospital, described by the travellers Le Blanc and Pyrard as the most beautiful and best-equipped hospital in the world. Its beginnings are dated to 1703, with Cipriano Valadares as its head. Two key factors were undoubtedly the cornerstone upon which this education was built: the lack of medical and sanitary care, and the particular receptiveness of the Goans to learning medical sciences. For from the last decades of the 16th century, the unsanitary conditions of the Old City of Goa were growing. High population density was compounded by a lack of hygiene and medical care. Its population of 400,000 inhabitants, decimated by deadly epidemics, had been reduced to 40,000 a century later, in 1670! ‘By that time,’ writes Prof. Germano Correia (1), ‘death had already claimed several viceroys, many noblemen and inquisitors, almost all victims of fevers that did not seem fatal, according to the terminology of the time.’
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Instituto de Medicina Tropical