Aleixo de Abreu (1568-1630), author of the earliest book on tropical medicine describing amoebiasis, malaria, typhoid fever, scurvy, yellow fever, dracontiasis, trichuriasis and tungiasis in 1623 / F. Guerra.

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Abreu, Aleixo de. Tratado de las siete enfermadades.

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Aleixo de Abreu (1568-1630), author of the earliest book on tropical medicine describing amoebiasis, malaria, typhoid fever, scurvy, yellow fever, dracontiasis, trichuriasis and tungiasis in 1623 / F. Guerra.