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SANTA ANNA, Joaquim José de [Santana] (1720 – 1782)

1720 – 1782

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1793 CE

#9074

Elementos de cirurgia ocular offerecidos a Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. João Principe do Brazil.

The first Portuguese book on ophthalmology. Santa Ana was the first Portuguese physician to specialize in ophthalmology. "He acknowledges (pp. vii-viii) that the section of the Elementos on anatomy and physiology is a…